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The National Trails System includes 11 long-distance National Scenic Trails with distinctive trail markers for each. This is a list of notable long-distance trails in the United States, with a minimum length of 30 miles (48 km).
National Trails System; National Millennium Trail project – 16 long-distance trails selected in 2000 as visionary trails that reflect defining aspects America's history and culture; Trail, long-distance trail; List of long-distance trails, Long-distance trails in the United States, List of rail trails; State wildlife trails (United States)
The first person to thruhike the IAT, as it then existed, was John Brinda from Washington State, in 1997. He did this as part of a long-distance hike of what is known as the Eastern Continental Trail starting in Key West, Florida ending at Cap Gaspé in Quebec. He was the first person to thruhike the entire Eastern Continental Trail.
Three long-distance trails in the United States have new status as National Park System sites: the Ice Age, New England and North Country national scenic trails.
The hiking distance of the ECT is approximately 4,400 miles (7,100 km), not including water gaps around Newfoundland. The trail system was named by long-distance hiker M. J. Eberhart (trail name: Nimblewill Nomad). [1] The first person to complete the ECT from Key West to Cap Gaspé, Quebec, was John Brinda in 1997. [2]
It links together five long-distance hiking trails: the Pacific Crest Trail, the Pacific Northwest Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, the Grand Enchantment Trail, and the Arizona Trail. It traverses the Mojave Desert , the Sonoran Desert , 12 National Parks , and 75 wilderness areas.
Danae and Olen Netteburg, both 44, and their five children aged between 14 and two, have just completed North America’s holy hiking trinity, the Triple Crown.
The Long Distance Walkers Association (LDWA) has the most comprehensive online database of long-distance paths in the UK, [7] and members are able to download GPX files of routes. The association also maintains the LDWA National Trails Register, [ 8 ] with different levels of membership for people who have completed five, 10, 15 or all 19 of ...