Coming Soon: The Pacific Northwest Trail (Now with Federal Funding!)
Friday, July 31st, 2009
Barack Obama signed a bill creating three new hiking trails for the national scenic trails system. The most ambitious is the Pacific Crest Trail.
It is the only national scenic trail that connects two others - the Pacific Crest Trail and the Continental Divide Trail - meaning a person could hike from near the Mexican border, up to North Cascades National Park, east to Glacier National Park, and then down to the Mexican border again.
The feds will supply money to connect several very old trails, build bridges, and put up signage at trailheads for what will become the Pacific Northwest Trail. The trail will run through three national parks in some of the most mountainous and emptiest parts of the lower 48. A perfect place to get away from it all if you’re the governor of a northwest state. Keep that excuse in your back pocket.




