The Slackpacker guide to hiking and backpacking

Hiking Trail Finder • Links to Trail Descriptions by State

Fall-out on Trekking Poles: A recent "article" in the LA Times, co-authored by yours truly, turned out to be more like the pre-match prattle heard in professional wrestling than anything else. To set the record straight, here's a link to our new page all about trekking poles. Includes the "pros" and "cons," and a special guest rebuttal prompted by the LA Times piece. If you feel compelled to contact me about the LA Times Trekking Pole article, please read this page first. Thanks -- Rick.

Slackpacker.com is designed to provide convenient access to websites with hiking and backpacking trail maps, descriptions, journals, trip reports, and photographs. It is not intended to "compete" with other hiking-oriented sites, rather it is to provide quick, organized access to those other sites. In addition to great commercial sites, thousands of personal sites have been posted on free web servers -- only to be ignored by search engines. The purpose of slackpacker.com is to provide a way to find these pages, and make research easier for the hiker.

If you are unable to view the map above, please click here for all state hiking links.

While we do provide some content, the purpose of this site is to provide a little more information about hiking trail sites than the search engines will, and enable you to click-through to the information you need. We don't trouble you with pop-ups, registration, or any other such nonsense.

Additional sections of this site cover activities related to hiking, including our gear guide and a geology primer, as well as info on climbing, camping, peakbagging, orienteering, geocaching, etc.; please refer to the link buttons on the left hand side of this page.

For winter pursuits, we invite you to visit our sister website, SkierNet.com, a complete guide to ski areas, skiing technique, and equipment in the same quick-loading, easy-to-use style as slackpacker.com.

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The Slackpacker's Guide to Hiking Trails & Wilderness Travel

Hiking Trail Finder • Links to Trail Descriptions by State

While we do provide some content, the purpose of this site is to provide a little more information about hiking trail sites than the search engines will, and enable you to click-through to the information you need. We don't trouble you with pop-ups, registration, or any other such nonsense.

Additional sections of this site cover activities related to hiking, including our gear guide and a geology primer, as well as info on climbing, camping, peakbagging, orienteering, geocaching, etc.; please refer to the link buttons on the left hand side of this page.

For winter pursuits, we invite you to visit our sister website, SkierNet.com, a complete guide to ski areas, skiing technique, and equipment in the same quick-loading, easy-to-use style as slackpacker.com.