Archived Outdoors
National Trails Day breaks records
The numbers are in, and this year’s National Trails Day, organized at locations across the country by the American Hiking Society on June 4, offered more trail activities than any other year since the inaugural year 1993.
Nationwide, 2,391 activities including hiking, biking, horseback riding, trail maintenance, paddling, geocaching, trail dedications and children’s activities took place in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico, enticing more than 168,000 adventure-seekers to explore parks and trails.
The activities resulted in 296,400 miles hiked, 164,200 miles biked, 29,500 miles paddled and 20,900 miles traveled on horseback, as well as 25,900 trail volunteers putting in $2.8 million of sweat equity in trail projects.
