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Hall of Mosses
 

Trails - Hike - Washington

The Hoh Rain Forest

An easy walking trail into an enchanted forest.

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Remember the animated trees in Lord of the Rings? In Washington’s Olympic National Park, you will swear that you are in a movie set on the Hall of Mosses Trail.

The most accessible trail into the Hoh Rain Forest is an easy nature loop less than a mile long with about 100 feet in elevation gain. Its frequent use doesn’t take away any of its charm. The self-guided trail winds through old-growth Sitka spruce, western red cedar, western heml...[continued]

 
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  driftwood views Portions of the refuge are closed at different times of the year in order to provide solitude during critical nesting and feeding times. Pets and kite flying are not allowed. Trails | Hike - Driftwood, tide flats, birding and marine life. [more] Granite Dells Hike Trails Trails | Hike - An easy walk through the scenic Granite Dells. [more] Granite Park Chalet Hike Trails | Hike - Traditional chalets await backcountry hikers. [more]  
 
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Cave Loop trail
 

Trails - Hike - New Mexico

Tent Rocks National Monument

A little-known landscape of stone teepees.

Trails

About halfway in between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, New Mexico, you will find Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument. This is probably one of the least visited national monuments in New Mexico, if not in the entire Western United States.

In the middle of the Cochiti pueblo, a dirt forest service road leads you to a landscape created by eroding lava. The formations are pitted with small natural caves, and form teepee like shapes which appear almost mythical. Looking like a village of mosques, many have little hats of resistant rock perched on their tops.

Tent Rocks is deemed a Natural Area of Critical Environmental Concern. Two trails wind through the site, where you can explore small canyons and catch views of the distant Sandia Mountain Range. The easy Cave Loop trail is 1.2 miles long. The Canyon trail, which is more difficult, is 1.5 miles one way into a narrow canyon. At its end you climb 630 feet up to the top of a mesa for 360 degree views. The beautiful red-colored trunks of pointleaf manzanita are a photogenic contrast to the starkness of the rocks.

Look closely at the claylike volcanic tuff formations to find small pieces of ...[continued]

 
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  boardwalk at Moonstone xxxx Trails | Hike - Pines, waves, whales, agates and sea otters. [more] Swan Lake Trails Trails | Hike - An easy loop with mountain views and wildlife. [more] Stein's Pillar view from first overlook Hike Trails | Hike - Hike to the base of a 200 foot natural skyscraper. [more]  
 
         
       
         
 
     
 

 
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