ArizonaHiking.org Weekend Warriors has a good, personalized list:
Best Easy Hikes
Best Medium difficulty hikes
Best Hard hikes
Best Fall leaf watching hikes
Best hikes for solitude
Best hikes for spectacular views
Best water hikes
etc.
LOVE these two posts by Barry . Terrific photos and trip reports.
• Twin Falls in Yoho National Park, British Columbia, Canada
Twin Falls, Yoho
• Fairy Falls and Imperial Geyser – Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming
• Mount Allan – Centennial Ridge – Wind Valley, Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada
• Perley Rock – Rogers Pass – Canada’s Glacier National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Asulkan Valley – Rogers Pass – Canada’s Glacier National Park, British Columbia, Canada
• Swiftcurrent Pass – Glacier National Park, Montana
• Grinnell Glacier – Many Glaciers – Glacier National Park, Montana
• Larch Valley and Sentinel Pass – Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Eiffel Lakes and Wenkchemna Pass – Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada
• Turtle Mountain Summit Traverse – Crowsnest Pass, Alberta, Canada
• The Pod – Crowsnest Pass – Hiking Alberta
• Mount Sir Donald – Rogers Pass – Glacier National Park – Hiking British Columbia
• Highline Trail – Garden Wall – Glacier National Park – Hiking Montana
• Grandview Trail – Grand Canyon National Park – Hiking Arizona
• Butch Cassidy Trail – Red Canyon – Hiking Utah
• Mount Burke – Cameron Fire Lookout – South Kananaskis – Hiking Alberta
• Stanley Glacier – Kootenay National Park – Hiking British Columbia
… something off-the-cuff, the first thing that pops into your head, so you don’t have time to over-think it. Give yourself 15 minutes to write it, five minutes to double-check your work, then post.
• health benefits
• relaxation of disconnecting from the world and internet
• beauty of the great outdoors
• hiking is relatively inexpensive
• it’s a fitness hobby I can do into my old age
• travel
I’ve been to 50 nations already. If I live long enough, I just might just get to 50 more.
… Much more eloquent than a bullet list are my hiking photos:
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… You are probably too BUSY to bother with this contest.
Tom Mangan our online hiking guru. Here are 5 ways he researches best hikes:
1. State parks. (Google the one you want.)
2. AllTrails – http://alltrails.com– AllTrails allows you to search by zip code to find trails, post reviews, keep a journal of your hikes and scan for local events. …
3 EveryTrail – http://www.everytrail.com— EveryTrail's technology allows people to document their hikes via GPS, pictures, videos and smartphones. …
4. Local Hikes – http://www.localhikes.com– Local Hikes is an old-school online hiking site (if you can imagine such a thing): It's based on hikes near major metro areas, and includes topographic maps and reviews of each hike. …
Conspicuously absent from that list is Trails.com, a database of 49,000 trails. It’s a walled garden, requiring a paid membership for a full membership. I don’t need it. And neither does Tom.
I’ve subscribed to Travel Country. Tom’s just one of their excellent bloggers.
A classic hike in my part of the world, the Canadian Rockies.
It’s a 3 -5 day tough backpacking trip covering 55 kms (34 miles) one way. Start at the Floe Lake Trailhead and finish at the Paint Pots Trailhead.
The trailheads are about a 2 ½ hour drive from Calgary. …
Hitchhike back to your car at the end of the trip or arrange a car shuttle before you begin. The trailheads are only 13 kms (8 miles) apart. You do need to buy a back-country pass beforehand. …
Hey … Three of those I was not yet subscribed to by RSS in Google Reader. Thanks Tom!
Note: Tom’s got the most complete list of hiking blogs online. (The main reason I don’t keep one.) … But he’s recently moved it to the bottom of Two-Heel Drive.
We have a category on this site called Urban Hikes.
But this is the first time I’ve linked to a History Hike.
Tom Mangan on Guilford Courthouse National Military Park:
… This park is a history buff’s dream — right here in good ol’ Greensboro, the general famous for losing America to the Revolutionaries eked out a Redcoat victory at Guilford Courthouse, a win so hollow that a member of Britain’s House of Commons declared “another such victory would ruin the British Army!” …
A 3-mile loop trail passes most of the key sites in the battle. …
Conspicuously absent from that list is Trails.com, a database of 49,000 trails. It’s a walled garden, requiring a paid membership for a full membership. I don’t need it. And neither does Tom. 
Timeliness: Newsy, relevant, plugged in to the latest doings and technology.
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