[News: President Trump recently upgraded Arizona’s Chiricahua from a national monument to a national park.]

The PNW & AK region has ten trails managed by the NPS that are not individual park units: six historic, three scenic and one geologic.

• The Lewis & Clark NHT passes through Idaho, Oregon and Washington, as they followed the great rivers to map the trail through the Rocky Mountains to the sea.
• Both the California and Oregon Pioneer NHTs travel partly through Idaho on their way to settling in the west.
• The Nez Perce NHT includes Idaho and Oregon as they attempted to flee the US military.
• The Chilkoot NHT tracks the treacherous golden stairs up to the Canadian border in Alaska, where it continues as a national historic site in the Yukon Territory.
• And the Iditarod NHT celebrates the achievements on the dogsled trails in Alaska’s winter.

• The Continental Divide NST winds through the panhandle of Idaho on its way to the border.
• The Pacific Crest NST is one of the nation’s great cross country trails and its northern section is in Oregon and Washington.
• The Pacific Northwest NST runs through Oregon and Washington to the Pacific.

• And last but not least, the Ice Age Floods NGT tracks the path of glacial meltwater through Idaho and Washington.

All these trails cross through high mountains, and the PNW & AK trails are all dramatically beautiful.