Starting to really get into nature trails and walks because it's a healthy and entertaining way to get my kids outside. We've been hiking the Pacific Crest Trail for years, up along the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade mountain. Beautiful scenery.
I bet. I dont have any nature trails where I live.
Well, we only do parts of the trail, because it's so long. The thing's southern terminus is on the U.S. border with Mexico, a little south of Campo, California, and its northern terminus is on the Canada-US border on the edge of Manning Park in British Columbia. It stretches from California, Oregon, and Washington.. so obviously we only do a little piece of it. But it's great to get out.
I would love to hike along the West coast like that.
I hope one day we can do more sections of it. The route goes through 25 national forests and 7 national parks, so there's so much to see. I'm jealous of people that can take time off of work or family and do the entire hike. It made into a National Scenic Trail all the way back in 1968, but it still took them until 1993 to complete it. So, that gives you even more of an idea of how big it is.
Wow it must be really long?
It's the westernmost and second longest component of the Triple Crown of Hiking and is part of the 6,875-mile Great Western Loop. So, you could say it's long, in a word. It's one of the more prominent trails in the United States.
That is amazing. Are there lots of wildlife along the trail?
by Clinton Churchill Clarke in 1932. It received official status under the National Trails System Act of 1968.
It is the westernmost and second longest component of the Triple Crown of Hiking and is part of the 6,875-mile Great Western Loop.
Route.
The route is mostly through National Forest and protected wilderness. The trail avoids civilization and covers scenic and pristine mountainous terrain with few roads. It passes through the Laguna, Santa Rosa, San Jacinto, San Bernardino, San Gabriel, Liebre, Tehachapi, Sierra Nevada,
Triple Crown of Hiking
The Triple Crown of Hiking informally refers to the three major U.S. long-distance hiking trails:
- Pacific Crest Trail – long, Washington, Oregon, and California between Mexico and Canada following the highest portion of the Sierra Nevada and Cascade Range.
- Appalachian Trail – , between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine.
- Continental Divide Trail – , between Mexico and Canada following the Continental Divide along the Rocky Mountains and traversing Montana, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, and