Walking Vacations in North America

Looking at North America walking vacations? Take a look at some of these great web resources available to help you choose where.

The US National Park Service website is an excellent place to learn about the American parks (there are nearly 400). Everything from local history, the best trails, to temperature and wildlife. It's well worth a visit.

Centre of Glacier Park, Montana, near to Logan Pass

Glacier National Park, Montana, Travel Guide
Follow a seasonal worker's advice and travel Glacier like a local, not a tourist. Includes backpacking equipment, hiking suggestions, grizzly bear survival techniques and more!

Shasta Ranch Lodge, California, is a great base camp to all your Mt. Shasta day adventures. There are many hiking trails just minutes from the lodge.

Everyday is a new adventure. Trails to old abandoned Hot Spring Resorts, and at least a half dozen or more "cool" waterfalls, all within minutes.
To hot to hike, take it underground. The abundance of caves to explore is over whelming, some 400 of them, but this will have to be another hiking vacation.

About the Shoals is an information rich resource providing everything you need to know about Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Florence, Alabama. Whether you're looking for information on hiking, fishing, camping, shopping, parks, lakes, golf, events, or The Shoals businesses, it's here.

Another good site covers Yosemite-California National Park. It includes everything you need to know about Yosemite; travelling, hiking, rafting, bears, granite mountains and of course the beautiful waterfalls are on this site!

A comprehensive site on Whistler in British Columbia, Canada...
Guide to Whistler BC
One couples advice for visitors considering a vacation to Whistler BC. Skiing, hiking, heli and cross country skiing. Campgrounds, parks, travel maps, renting motorhomes, accommodations, golf courses, history. Everything a visitor will need to have a memorable vacation in the mountains.

A bit further a field in the Pacific...

eua-island-tonga.com, Vacations in Tonga's Tropical Paradise
Experience the natural beauty that is 'Eua Island Tonga. 'Eua's Trekking and hiking are said to be some of the best in the south pacific and whale watching can be experienced from land and sea. 'Eua island - its warmth is surpassed only by its people.

We'll be adding to this page as we come across more top information sites on walking vacations. Keep popping back!


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