Whether it's a month trekking the Pacific Crest Trail, a day following the pioneers down the Oregon Trail, or an hour strolling along a cherished shady brook, hiking is one of our favorite recreational activities.
Trails are exercise, commuting and sightseeing.
Trails are a chance to be social or experience solitude, to have some fun or to self-discover. Here, in the Pacific Northwest, we're fortunate to have an incredible variety of trails to experience. And the RTCA Program is doing its best to help ensure that everyone can experience a trail close to home. The National Park Service's RTCA Program teamed with a coalition of trails groups to develop a strategy to begin to turn this concept into reality. The system should consist of and link federal, state, local and private trails.