Historic Hiking Trails

A Directory of Over 900 Routes with Awards Available to Hikers

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About the Book

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. 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 do not themselves figure in history; nature 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.

About the Author(s)

Attorney Steve Rajtar is the author of numerous reference works. He lives in Issaquah, Washington.

Bibliographic Details

Steve Rajtar
Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 173
Bibliographic Info: index
Copyright Date: 2002
pISBN: 978-0-7864-1196-2
eISBN: 978-1-4766-0234-9
Imprint: McFarland

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     v

Preface     ix

Introduction     1

The Trails     3

Index     153

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