Discover the USA’s iconic locations, including Yosemite National Park and Presidential Traverse, through the European style of hut-to-hut and inn-to-inn hiking.
Highlights
- A whole continent of diverse landscapes and cultures
- Numerous national parks strewn across the states
- A unique approach to experience the American way of life
- Coastal inn-to-inn walks around San Francisco and Monterey Bay
USA Hiking Tours
Discover the USA’s iconic locations, including Yosemite National Park and Presidential Traverse, through the European style of hut-to-hut and inn-to-inn hiking.
Highlights
- A whole continent of diverse landscapes and cultures
- Numerous national parks strewn across the states
- A unique approach to experience the American way of life
- Coastal inn-to-inn walks around San Francisco and Monterey Bay
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Why Visit the USA on a Hiking Tour?
Hikers usually link the USA with backpacking and established long-distance thru-hikes like the Appalachian or Pacific Crest Trail. Trekking these trails end-to-end requires a significant effort over several weeks or months and sleeping in a tent.
Our approach, however, focuses on the European model of hut-to-hut or inn-to-inn hiking, which takes hikers from one serviced hut to another. These hikes offer considerably more comfort and a much less wild experience, which caters to a wider range of trekkers.
There are several such opportunities across the States, from the San-Francisco-based exploration of Mount Tamalpais State Park to the slow-paced coastal walks in California.
Nonetheless, hiking in the USA differs from the classic hut-to-hut hikes in the Alps. The most remote parts of the mountains can only be reached by backpackers, meaning the hikes are much less about escaping crowds than walking alongside others on popular paths near the cities or towns.
Yet, for people who don’t feel comfortable going into extreme wilderness, these hikes offer the ideal amount of challenge. They can serve as your gateway to discovering America’s best bits through trekking.
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About Hiking in the USA
Hikers link America with thru-hiking: the Appalachian Trail or the Pacific Crest, walked over months with a tent on your back. We do the opposite. All three of our American weeks are inn to inn on the California coast, walked with a daypack while your bag goes ahead by road.
The trade is an honest one. You are near towns rather than deep in wilderness, and that is exactly what makes these weeks work for people who would never carry a tent.
Three coastal weeks, all self-guided, all with the bag moved for you.
Mount Tamalpais State Park: the Golden Gate on foot
Monterey Bay: Santa Cruz to Monterey, the gentlest
Half Moon Bay to San Francisco: Mavericks to the city
The Mount Tamalpais week starts in the city and walks out of it. You cross the Golden Gate Bridge on foot, climb the wildflower slopes of the Marin Headlands, and walk among the ancient redwoods of Muir Woods before the ascent of Mount Tamalpais itself.
It is the hardest of the three at 2,700 feet on its biggest day, and it finishes in Mill Valley.
The other two follow the water. Monterey Bay runs Santa Cruz to Monterey on beach and coastal trail, climbing 180 to 509 feet a day, which makes it the gentlest week we sell anywhere, and the whole bay is a national marine sanctuary.
Half Moon Bay to San Francisco starts at Mavericks, the big wave break, passes the Montara lighthouse and the Pacifica surf beaches, and ends by walking into the city.
Two of the three run March to November. The Monterey Bay week runs January to December, which makes it the only walking week in our whole range with no closed season at all.
That is the California coast doing the work. The climbs are small and the trails stay low, so there is no snow line to wait for and the calendar is yours rather than the mountain's.
Every American week is self-guided rather than escorted. You get a digital guidebook with the route, GPS navigation on an app and support on the phone, and you walk at your own pace with no group schedule to keep.
Nights are 3-star boutique hotels and B&Bs with breakfast, and your luggage moves between them by road.
More in self-guided tours explained and our hiking difficulty guide.
