Places jackofalltrails Wants to Go

Journey through the largest remaining peat bogs in the contiguous United States to see the wilderness as it once was.

An historic lighthouse accessible via a half-mile walk through a nature preserve and freshwater tidal wetlands.

Meet California's largest recorded lodgepole pine: an 11-story-tall, 440-year-old living relic that has survived centuries of disaster to rank among the world's greatest forest giants.

All that remains of this Massachusetts town, demolished in the name of progress, is a stone marker.

A fictional Coupe DeVille built by hand and gifted to the Man in Black himself.

This dig site outside D.C. is known for its exceptionally high density of baby dinosaur fossils and dinosaur eggs.

A wonderful collection of fossilized dinosaurs and other creatures that roamed the landscape millions of years ago.

A very special collection of some of the rarest and most beautiful guitars.

The highest point in South Carolina was once owned by an energy company that neglected it but now the state is taking it back.

Strange red rock formations that have been attributed to a higher power for hundreds of years.

The last surviving footbridge in the Yakima Canyon, now a historic landmark, provides access to wilderness west of the Yakima River

A massive hydrovolcanic explosion left a half-mile wide crater in Death Valley.

Ruins of this late 19th-century mining camp are right on Nevada State Route 266

An isolated, relict ponderosa pine forest in central Oregon that survives on half the usual rainfall due to a geologic quirk

A small troop of Japanese macaques live peacefully in the heart of this Tasmanian city.

The residents at this Yellowstone wildlife park will certify your cooler as "bear-proof."

The bears may be gone, but their old cages can still be found.

A dazzling display of red rocks weathered into spires and hoodoos.

The world's oldest individual clonal tree looks like a wimp despite standing tall for 9,550 years.

One person’s lost luggage is another person’s treasure.

One of the American Southwest's most extensive collections of Navajo rock art.

The oldest pictographs on this decorated rock formation in California's Carrizo Plain date back as many as 4,000 years.

A cozy bookstore is tucked within an old gold mine shaft beneath the cafe and ice cream shop.

The "Grand Canyon of Southwestern Idaho" makes a spectacular gash across the flat Snake River plain.