We love hiking! We hike often all throughout the year, and have found so many great trails! There is just something special about being together as a family exploring the outdoors, and then arriving at a beautiful destination. It is a wonderful adventure for our family.
Utah has so many hikes. Thousands of different trails. We share all of the hikes that we have hiked as family, and give all the details here that you’ll need as you head out on the trail. How long, how hard, fees required, and more.
Cook’s Meadow Loop is a really nice nature walk that you can hike it in just a few minutes in Yosemite National Park. This short trail runs from shuttle stop #6, which is where you get off for Lower Yosemite Falls, to shuttle stop #11, which is at the Visitor's Center.…
Rainbow Falls is a beautiful waterfall in Devils Postpile National Monument in California. There is a short hike to the waterfall, and you have to ride the shuttle into the monument, so make sure to click on the link above for those details. To begin the hike to Rainbow Falls,…
We love Fehr Lake on the Mirror Lake Highway and every time we hike here, we look at the sign for Shepard and Hoover Lakes. They are quite a bit further, but the lakes are beautiful. Hoover Lake is beautiful. So we drove to the familiar Fehr Lake trailhead 30 miles…
Every time we go to a National Park we make it a point to find all the hikes for kids. We do as many as we can so we can report our favorites back to you. If you’re looking for a hike for your kids in Zion, Bryce, Great Basin, Yellowstone,…
The Notch is a fun, intermediate hike in Badlands National Park. This out and back hike runs about a mile and a half through the rocky terrain of the Badlands. We rate this hike as moderate to strenuous and suggest that families with small children are careful if they attempt to…
Fossil Exhibit Trail is a short easy walk in Badlands National Park. We were fooled by this trail, though, because we thought we were going to see some dinosaur fossils. We didn’t. In fact, we didn’t see any fossils at all. Let me explain: Fossil Exhibit Trail is a boardwalk…