Local parks and nature preserves are good places to begin your explorations. Many enthusiasts venture to their favorite summer hiking trails which gain extra appeal during the winter months due to the fact they are less traveled which makes them seem even more remote and wild. Many cross-country ski centers now offer snowshoe trail systems as complement to their nordic trails. Golf courses can be excellent places to snowshoe, especially when snow cover is thin, provided course management grants permission. Personally, I enjoy river bottoms and wetlands because winter travel on snowshoes often is the only way to explore these secluded and quiet areas which can often be found within urban areas.
Caution is advised when exploring ice-covered lakes and streams by snowshoe.
Although snowshoeing is a new sport for most runners and fitness enthusiasts, with the right attitude one can easily discover a new way to celebrate a fitness lifestyle and enjoy the experience with others. It may just come to be that you too could become a snowshoe enthusiast. You might even come to celebrate the blizzard's aftermath for the opportunity to have great fun playing on your new shoes. He was introduced to snowshoeing as a child, returned to the sport in 1988 and ranks snowshoeing excursions among his most memorable outdoors experiences. Herb has worked as marketing and design consultant in the snowshoe market, as well as organizing and competing in numerous snowshoe competitions.