Category: longer hiking trail

Great Plains Trail Making Great Strides

picture of first Great Plains Trail thru hiker

America’s Newest Long Distance Trail You’ve all heard of the Appalachian Trail, Continental Divide Trail and Pacific Crest Trail. Many of you, however, are aware of America’s latest and greatest long distance trail. The Great Plains Trail plows directly through the heartland of America. Upon completion, the trail will be over 2,200 miles long and …

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Long-Distance Trail Movies

Reese Witherspoon stars in Wild, the movie set on the Appalachian Trail

Wild set on Pacific Crest Trail First there was the movie The Way starring Martin Sheen and set on the Camino de Santiago, a long-distance hermitage trail in Spain. Now we are happy to see a movie set on the Pacific Crest Trail in California, Oregon and Washington. This latest movie is called Wild and stars …

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C & O Canal Towpath trail

I thought I would have finished my C & O Canal Towpath trail web page by now, but it’s taking me longer than I thought. Sorry ’bout that. The east side of the Big Savage Tunnelon the C & O Canal Towpath Trail in Maryland Anyway, I do have the pictures, a brief description, and …

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