Day Hiking Guide

Arches National Park, Utah (Larry Brownstein/Photodisc/Getty)

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• Photos
• Feature Articles
• Trip Ideas
• Practical Advice
• Adventure Trips
• Gear

Day Hiking Photos

Feature Articles

• The New Ancient Inca Trail
  Mountain Lodges of Peru takes a Life Lister—hiking to Machu Picchu—and reinvents it into a classic, lodge-to-lodge experience.
• Top Ten Active Baby-Boomer Vacations
  Trekking in Maine
• Getting Cozy in the Catskills
  From rustic B&Bs to soaring over the Hudson Valley, from sinful desserts to lazy wanders under autumn’s vibrant canopy, New York’s Catskills offer the romantic traveler a landscape customized to their amorous appetites.
• Hut-to-Hut Traverse
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  Banff National Park, Alberta
• True Hawaii
  Maui: A Water Escape

Trip Ideas

• Bagging the Munros: Hillwalking in Scotland
  
• Ireland at a Leisurely Pace: Walking through County Galway
  
• Exploring Australia's Red Center: Uluru National Park and Kings Canyon
  
• Yellowstone On Your Own Two Feet
  
• The Other Grand Canyon: Arizona's Havasu Canyon and the Seldom-Seen South Rim
  

Practical Advice

• Adventure Travel 101
  GORPTravel’s Kate Tucker and Linda Long answer our burning questions about the tao of adventure travel
• Day Hiking: A Packing List
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• GORP - Tips for Sunscreen Prevention - Sun Safety in the Great Outdoors
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• GORP - Check Yourself - Sun Safety in the Great Outdoors
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• GORP - Sun Safety in the Great Outdoors - Introduction
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GORPtravel Adventure Trips & Guided Tours

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  Trekking Annapurna
  Gap Adventures
  from $729, 21 days
  Traverse through forests of rhododendron, isolated hamlets, and small mountain villages, while encountering temples, monasteries and taking in...
  
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  The Australia Explorer
  Small World Journeys
  from $1920, 8 days
  Cairns is blessed with a superb location between ancient rainforest, classic outback and the Great Barrier Reef. On this active adventure, you get to...
  
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  Annapurna Machapuchare
  World Expeditions
  from $2260, 14 days
  This trek offers the opportunity to escape Nepal's tourist trails, to venture into the deep forests and roam the high alpine pastures to the base of...
  
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  River Valley Lodge
  River Valley Lodge
  from $140, 7 days
  River Valley is a New Zealand adventure lodge situated "away from it all" next to the breathtaking Rangitikei River. While River Valley Lodge is...
  
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  Echo Valley Ranch - Hiking Adventure
  Echo Valley Ranch & Spa
  from $2200, 8 days
  Designed for fit, intermediate hikers Echo Valley's Hiking package offers hikes in magnificent landscapes. ...
  

Gear

• Women's Hiking
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• The Gear You Need: Mountain Trekking in Peru
  Save for dense snow cover and crampon-required icefields, if you’re looking to outfit yourself for trekking in places like the Peruvian Andes, we’ve got the goods.
• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.
• The Goods: Hiking
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• Waterproofing Innovations
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  A new way to waterproof

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