Historic Hiking Trails: A Directory of Over 900 Routes with Awards Available to Hikers

Steve Rajtar

Historic Hiking Trails: A Directory of Over 900 Routes with Awards Available to Hikers
Format
Paperback
Publisher
McFarland & Co Inc
Country
United States
Published
1 July 2002
Pages
173
ISBN
9780786411962

Historic Hiking Trails: A Directory of Over 900 Routes with Awards Available to Hikers

Steve Rajtar

Approximately 900 hiking trails in the United States take hikers along routes or past sites of historical importance and offer commemorative embroidered patches or other souvenirs of the outing. These trails allow hikers to gain a new appreciation for history and actually experience it, instead of only reading about it - and have something to show for their hike. The first comprehensive guide to those trails, this work covers routes in all fifty states and the District of Columbia as well as interstate trails and out-of-state trails located in the Panama Canal area, Korea and the Philippines. The book categorizes each as historic, meaning that it played some significant role in history; historical, meaning that it takes the hiker by or into buildings or sites that have some relationship to a significant person or event, but does not itself figure in history, naturo or scenic, because of the wildlife or scenery available along the way that can be viewed along with the historical site; or recreational, meaning that the trail was established for the long-distance hiker and history buff. Each entry also tells who the trail’s sponsor is, if alternate means of transportation are allowed, location, length, route, type of terrain, what type of awards are given and any associated costs, registration requirements, and sites along the trail.

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