Top Best Hiking Places and Trails in the US

A challenging trail, thrilling heights and spectacular sceneries is what all hiking experience can offer. Tourist hikers roam all over the world to experience different levels of hiking trails and US has the best places for the said exciting outdoor activity.

The National Geographic Travel round up the best places for hiking in United States. One of the best pick is the Hoh Rain Forest in Washington. It is part of the Olympic National Park and has a great number of pleasurable nature trails. To start exploring the area, it is highly recommended to try the 0.75 mile, Hall of Mosses Trail and the 1.25 mile Spruce Nature.

Track on for the Sitka Spruce, western hemlock, and huge western cedar while walking through the moss-draped maples and conifers that are amazingly temperate forest receives up to 14 feet of rain each year.

From a one hour drive from Washington DC, visit the Sky Meadows State Park in Virginia. This exquisite park offers spectacular sceneries of the Blue Ridge Mountains. One of the best natural hiking trails found within the park is the Appalachian Trail, a 2.4 mile section hiking trail. It is also an ideal place for picnic while enjoying viewing the wide rolling farmland.

Added on the best Hiking places in US is at the Muir Woods National Monument. It is spotted at the north of the Golden Gate, this attractive park also offers awesome array of loop hikes going through the giant coastal redwoods of California. Adults can relish the soothing shade and well-marked trails while children can also have fun solving the rhyming riddles free activity to the Muir wood Quest.

Another exciting US hiking trail can be found is at the Smoky Mountain National Park in Tennessee. While the park is considered as the world's best example of temperate deciduous forest, it offers wonder accessible nature trails with its Chimney Tops Trail. It is a four mile hike trail going through old-growth forest up to sheer cliffs.

While hiking can be a form of family boding activity, the most popular hiking trail in America for locals and visiting families is the Ohio & Erie Canal Trail in Ohio. It is an iconic hiking trail in Ohio which several access points. It is also recommended to try the Boston Store to Station Road Bridge section which is a 4.3 mile.