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BACKPACKER HIDDEN GEMS 100 GREATEST UNDISCOVERED HIKES ACROSS AMERICA ® FALCONGUIDES An imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 4501 Forbes Blvd., Ste. 200 Lanham, MD 20706 www.rowman.com Falcon and FalconGuides are registered trademarks and Make Adventure Your Story is a trademark of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK Copyright © 2018 Backpacker magazine, a division of Active Interest Media Cover photo by Stephen Yocom Back cover photo by Harry Hitzeman Maps by Melissa Baker © The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any electronic or mechanical means, including information storage and retrieval systems, without written permission from the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote passages in a review. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Information available Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Horjus, Maren, author. Title: Backpacker Hidden Gems : 100 greatest undiscovered hikes across America / by Maren Horjus. Description: Guilford, Connecticut : Falcon, [2018] | “Distributed by NATIONAL BOOK NETWORK”—T.p. verso. Identifiers: LCCN 2018002523| ISBN 9781493033867 (Paperback) | ISBN 9781493033874 (e- book) Subjects: LCSH: Backpacking—United States—Guidebooks. | Hiking—United States— Guidebooks. | Walking—United States—Guidebooks. | Trails—United States—Guidebooks. | United States—Guidebooks. Classification: LCC GV199.4 .H67 2018 | DDC 796.510973—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018002523 The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI/NISO Z39.48-1992. Printed in the United States of America The author and Rowman & Littlefield assume no liability for accidents happening to, or injuries sustained by, readers who engage in the activities described in this book. All permit information was verified with this book’s publication, but is subject to change. Check individual park regulations before heading out. Photo: John McCormick BACKPACKER 100 GREATEST HIDDEN UNDISCOVERED GEMS HIKES ACROSS AMERICA Maren Horjus FALCONGUIDES ® GUILFORD, CONNECTICUT CONTENTS I. WEST Introduction: Spoiler Alert 01 Return of the Natives Channel Islands, California 02 Do It Yourself Grapevine Mountains, Death Valley National Park, California 03 Easy Alaska Beardslee Islands, Glacier Bay National Park, Alaska 04 Wet and Wild Waimanu Valley, Kohala Forest Reserve, Hawaii 05 Insider’s Guide Warm Haven Anza-Borrego Desert State Park, California 06 Highlight Reel Nydiver Lakes, Ansel Adams Wilderness, California 07 Mountain Refuge Arrigetch Creek, Gates of the Arctic National Park & Preserve, Alaska 08 Alone In a Crowd Yosemite National Park, California 09 Land of Giants Redwood Canyon, Kings Canyon National Park, California 10 Splashdown Summit Lakes, Lassen Volcanic National Park, California 11 Insider’s Guide Punishing Paradise Lost Coast, California II. PACIFIC NORTHWEST 12 The Highest Order North Cascades National Park, Washington 13 Emerald City Queets River, Olympic National Park, Washington 14 Middle of Nowhere West Little Owyhee Canyon, Owyhee Canyonlands, Oregon 15 Life Finds a Way Mount St. Helens, Gifford Pinchot National Forest, Washington 16 Ocean Avenue Oregon Dunes, Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area, Oregon 17 Wildflowers and Waterfalls Mother Mountain, Mount Rainier National Park, Washington 18 Good as New Rogue River, Wild Rogue Wilderness, Oregon 19 Above It All Sahale Glacier Camp, North Cascades National Park, Washington 20 Lonely Canyon Joseph Canyon, Wallowa-Whitman National Forest, Oregon 21 Insider’s Guide Go Green Columbia River Gorge, Oregon and Washington III. SOUTHWEST 22 Canyon Confidential Grand Gulch, Cedar Mesa Special Recreation Management Area, Utah 23 Second Is the Best Bush Mountain, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas 24 Blast From the Past Yapashi Pueblo, Bandelier National Monument, New Mexico 25 Insider’s Guide Desert Oasis Mazatzal Wilderness, Arizona 26 Spring Fling

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