West and Southwest USA Hiking Trails

Featured Southwest Trails

Below are links to all featured trails on this site, those with photograph galleries and a detailed description. The index pages include interactive maps of all trailheads.

Arizona
Northeast, including Canyon de Chelly, Petrified Forest National Park and the Painted Desert
Northwest, including Grand Canyon, Lake Mead and Sedona
Southeast, including Chiricahua National Monument, Saguaro National Park, Superstition Mountains and Santa Catalina Mountains
Southwest, including Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and South Mountain Park

California
North, including Lassen Volcanic National Park, and Redwood National and State Parks
Central, including Death Valley National Park, Kings Canyon National Park, Lake Tahoe, Muir Woods National Monument, Sequoia National Park and Yosemite National Park
South, including Anza Borrego State Park, Joshua Tree National Park and Mojave National Preserve

Colorado, including the Rocky Mountains, Great Sand Dunes, Black Canyon of the Gunnison and Colorado National Monument

New Mexico, including Bandelier, El Malpais and White Sands

Texas (west), where the main hiking locations are Big Bend and Guadalupe Mountains

Utah
North, including Uinta Mountains and Dinosaur National Monument
South Central, including Bryce Canyon, Capitol Reef and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument
Southeast, including Arches, Canyonlands, Cedar Mesa, Lake Powell and the San Rafael Swell
Southwest, including Snow Canyon State Park and Zion National Park

Wyoming (west), where the top two hiking locations are the Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks