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Florida National Scenic Trail
Established: March 28, 1983 Managing Nonprofit: Florida Trail Association Managing Agency: USDA Forest Service The Florida National Scenic Trail runs the length of the state that gives the Trail its name, through the swamps, sawgrass prairies, and cypress forests in the south, to…
Continental Divide National Scenic Trail
Established: November 10, 1978 Managing Nonprofit: Continental Divide Trail Coalition, Continental Divide Trail Society Managing Agency: USDA Forest Service The Continental Divide is an imaginary line that divides the North American continent in half. Water that falls to the west of that line…
Arizona National Scenic Trail
Established: March 30, 2009 Managing Nonprofit: Arizona Trail Association Managing Agency: USDA Forest Service The Arizona National Scenic Trail follows a roughly 800-mile course from the US/Mexico border to the Utah state line north of the Grand Canyon. The Trail crosses through several…
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
Established: October 2, 1968 Managing Nonprofit: Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Appalachian Mountain Club Managing Agency: National Park Service The Appalachian National Scenic Trail (ANST), along with the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail, was of two original National Trail designated by Congress with the passage…
Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail
Established: January 24, 2000 Managing Nonprofit: Ala Kahakai Trail Association, E Mau Na Ala Hele Managing Agency: National Park Service The name “Ala Kahakai” means “trail by the sea” in Hawaiian and this is no misnomer. The Ala Kahakai National Historic Trail follows…
California National Historic Trail
Established: August 3, 1992 Managing Nonprofit: Oregon-California Trails Association Managing Agency: National Park Service The California National Historic Trail follows in the footsteps (and wagon ruts) of more than 250,000 emigrants who made their way across the continental United States during the 1840s…
Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail
Established: December 19, 2006 Managing Nonprofit: Chesapeake Conservancy Managing Agency: National Park Service The Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail (CJSCNHT) serves to commemorate the routes taken by the Englishman for whom the trail was named during his exploratory voyages from 1607-1609.…
El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail
Established: October 18, 2004 Managing Nonprofit: El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association Managing Agency: National Park Service When Frenchman, René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, set sail from Western Louisiana in search of the mouth of the Mississippi…
El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro National Historic Trail
Established: October 13, 2000 Managing Nonprofit: CARTA Trail Association Managing Agency: National Park Service The trail known today as the El Camino Real de Tiera Adentro (CARTA) National Historic Trail was the only link New Mexico had to the rest of the North…
Iditarod National Historic Trail
Established: November 10, 1978 Managing Nonprofit: Iditarod Historic Trail Alliance Managing Agency: Bureau of Land Management The Iditarod National Historic Trail is the only winter trail in the National Trails System. The Trail marks a string of mining camps, trading posts, and other…