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Just outside of Jefferson City, Missouri, Clark’s Hill/Norton State Historic Site offers breathtaking views of the Missouri River and surrounding area.

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🏕 BACKPACKING involves carrying a backpack with camping gear (tent, sleeping bag ... A cairn is a pile of rocks or stones often used as trail markers in areas where the trail may be difficult to ...

A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile ...

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

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On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply disappears ... they resupply food or switch out gear. They represent an important part of ...

If you ask us, New Jersey’s natural wonders all seem to be lifted from the pages of a storybook. That’s certainly true of today’s feature destination, a ...

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