HIKING & CAMPING
web LINKS

(mostly
USA hiking & camping
trails, areas, etc.)


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Here are a couple of sample packing lists --- of an ultralight camper and his wife. About 10 pounds per pack.

Note:
You can use an option like 'Find in This Page ...' of your web browser to find keywords on this page, such as

'backpack'   OR   'trail'   OR   'camp'   OR   'guide'   OR   'map'.

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Start of Hiking/Camping Links.

Hiking-Camping
AREAS,CAMPS,TRAILS

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Some links to NATION-wide info :

Some links to WORLD-wide info :

 
Some Virginia/WestVirginia/NorthCarolina info links :

Hiking-Camping
PHOTO-GALLERY sites

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Hiking-Camping
FORUMS

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Hiking-Camping
TRAVEL/ADVENTURE PACKAGES

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Hiking-Camping
LODGING
(roughly in alphabetical order)

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Hiking-Camping
STORES

(gear for sale -- boots, tents, etc.)

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Hiking-Camping
CLUBS & ORGANIZATIONS

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National (and worldwide) organizations :

 
East Coast, Mid-Atlantic (VA/MD/WVA) organizations :

      (with some sample hikes named)

  • Capital Hiking Club (VA) - at
    www.capitalhikingclub.com
    Example hikes:
    - Chincoteague Day Hike

  • Center Hiking Club (MD) - at
    www.centerhikingclub.org
    Example hikes/camps:
    - Little Bennett Regional Park Hike, Montgomery Co., MD
    - Signal Knob & Meneka Peak trails
    - Whiteoack Canyon, Shenandoah Nat. Park, VA, 8 mile
    - Little Devil Stairs, Shenandoah Nat. Park, VA, 11 mile
    - Skyland to Big Meadows, Shenandoah Nat. Park, VA, 8 miles
    - Old Rag Mountain, Shenandoah Nat. Park, VA, 10 miles
    - Jeremy's Run, Shenandoah Nat. Park, VA, 13 miles
    - Trillium Hike, Linden, VA, 7 mile and 10 mile hikes

  • Metro Washington Sierra Club - at
    mwrop.org
    Metro Washington Regional Outings Program :
    - Cunningham Falls, Thurmont, MD, 8.5 mile circuit
    - Leading Ridge, Shenandoah Nat. Park, VA, 18 miles
    - Rock Creek Park hike, D.C., 7 miles
    - Sky Meadows State Park, VA, Appalachian Trail, 10 mi out-and-back
    - Hawksbill, Shenandoah Nat. Park, VA, 14 miles

  • Mountain Club of Maryland - at
    mcomd.org
    Example hikes:
    - Signal Knob, Massanutten Mtns, VA
    - Camp Roosevelt Area Hike, Massanutten Mtns, VA
    - Patapsco River Hike, Patapsco State Park, MD
    - Massanutten East Trail, Massanutten Mtns, VA
    - Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg, MD, 10 mile circuit
    - Hawk Migration Hike, Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, PA

  • Northern Virginia Hiking Club - at
    nvhc.com
    Example hikes:
    - Sugarloaf Mountain Hike (MD)
    - Waterfall Hike, Shenandoah Nat. Park (VA)
    - Bull Run Marina, Fountainhead Park, VA
    - Big Schloss, George Washington Nat. Forest, VA
    - Mudhole Gap/Tuscarora Hike
    - Halfmoon Lookout, George Washington Nat. Forest, VA

  • Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (VA) - at
    patc.net
    Example hikes:
    - Tuscarora Trail (VA, WVA, MD, PA) - 252 miles

  • Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club (VA) - at
    ratc.org
    Example hikes:
    - Catawba Mountain hike
    - Johns Creek - 8.3 mile, strenuous
    - Bottom Creek Gorge, Roanoke County, VA - 5.3 miles on Bent Mtn

  • Virginia Dept. of Conservation & Recreation (DCR) - at
    www.dcr.virginia.gov
    Example hikes/camps:
    - New River Trail State Park,
    - Virginia Highlands Horse Trail,
    - Mount Rogers Nat. Rec. Area,
    - Grayson Highlands State Park,
    - Virginia Creeper Trail, etc.
    - (VA state parks - 1,400 campsites, 180 cabins, 500 miles of trails)

  • Washington Women Outdoors, WWO (D.C) - at
    www.washingtonwomenoutdoors.org
    Example activities:
    - Scott's Run Half-Day Hike, McLean, VA
    - Annapolis Rocks A.T. Hike, Myersville, MD, 5.5 mile out-and-back

Hiking-Camping
MAGAZINES (and news)

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Hiking-Camping
BOOKS sites

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'WEB DIRECTORY' pages on Hiking-Camping

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It seems that 'web directories' are dying out. Google and Yahoo closed theirs down around 2014. Then around 2017, the directory from which the Google and Yahoo web-directories were spawned --- the DMOZ "Open Directory Project" closed down.

It seems that it is just not feasible for a team of people to keep up with all the sites that are going dead and the new sites that appear.

About a year after the dmoz.org site closed down, it appears that a new web-directory site --- curlie.org --- arose from the ashes of 'dmoz.org'. It remains to be seen how long that web-directory lasts.

Following are a few links related to 'web directory' sites.

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Page history:

Page was created in 2006 May.

Page was changed 2015 May 22.
(Removed dead links to the old Google and Yahoo 'web-directories'. Added 'WEB SEARCH' links. Removed some dead links. Added some links.)

Page was changed 2018 Sep 22.
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Page was changed 2021 Feb 23.
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