I Want To Hike That Trail!

Inspired by countless conversations regarding what hike to do, I Want To Hike That Trail! is the latest website for choosing your next hiking adventure! Explore what each United States National Park has to offer and learn about what makes a trail popular!

A Note On Popularity: This website references a measure of Trail Popularity: a combination of several metrics from AllTrails and the National Parks Service regarding visitor usage and other factors. The popularity of a trail ranges from 0 to 100, and these numbers are comparative across all parks, not per park. The most popular trail in the entire United States national parks system has a popularity measurement of 84.6, and the least popular trail has a popularity measurement of 0.0.

Choose Your Park

How To Use This Map:

  • Hover over any of the National Park bubbles to see: name of the park, number of registered trails, and the average length and elevation gain of the trails at that park
  • Use the + and - to zoom into the center of the map and the 'house' to reset the map to the original scope of the United States
  • Click on the > for the options to zoom into a specific area with the 'magnifying glass' and select a specific area with the 'dashed lassos'
  • Darker bubbles indicate parks with a greater number of trails

Compare Your Park

Before you decide on which park you want to explore further (both on the ground and digitally!), compare your park to other parks to determine if the trails have the features you want to see and activities that you want to do.



Explore Your Park

Take a deeper dive into the trails at any national park and determine which trails fit the lengths, elevation gains, and route types that you want to hike.