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Outside Magazine May 2002
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Destinations: National Parks
The Best of the Rest (Cont.)

PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK
Petrified Forest, Arizona / 93,533 acres
No trails, no tourists—just you, your backpack, and miles of psychedelic wilderness. The red-, purple-, and white-banded spires and stonelike, sculpted trees in the 45,000-acre Northern Wilderness Area are a six-mile HIKE from the Kachina Point parking lot.
928-524-6228, www.nps.gov/pefo

REDWOOD NATIONAL PARK
Crescent City, California / 112,613 acres
There's no gnarly singletrack—this is a national park—but you'll get off the busy paved hiking trails and see groves of 300-foot-tall, thousand-year-old redwoods when you PEDAL the 11.5-mile Holter Ridge Trail, an old logging road that switchbacks along the park's eastern boundary.
707-464-6101, www.nps.gov/redw

SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK
Tucson, Arizona / 91,445 acres
It's just outside Tucson's urban sprawl, but few city dwellers HIKE the 16.5-mile Tanque Verde Ridge Trail, which rises 5,600 feet from the desert floor (home to 20-foot-tall saguaros) to the cooler, wetter Rincon Mountains.
520-733-5153, www.nps.gov/sagu

SEQUOIA AND KINGS CANYON NATIONAL PARKS
Three Rivers, California / 864,411 acres combined
Sign on for a six-day HORSEPACKING trip with Horse Corral Pack Station (from $195 per day; 559-565-3404) and you'll trot through craggy Cloud and Deadman Canyons and camp near the trout-filled Roaring River.
559-565-3135 (Sequoia), 559-565-4307 (Kings Canyon), www.nps.gov/seki




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