Travel, Explore, and Capture--Activities
Explore Constantly follows me while I travel, explore, and capture hiking, biking, skiing, sightseeing, photography activities. Below are some recent posts from each of these activity areas. You can also click here to see the map of places I've explored these activities.
Hiking Posts
Lake Louise to Jasper on the Icefields Parkway
The Icefields Parkway is a 140+ mile highway through Banff and Jasper National Parks in Alberta, Canada. It's amazing combination of more than 100 glaciers, dozens of beautiful blue-green mountain lakes, incredible peaks, and mountain vistas makes it with out a doubt...
Banff National Park – Hoodoos Trail
Hoodoos Trail is a 1.8 mile trail that overlooks the Bow River and Mount Rundle near the Tunnel Mountain Campground in Banff, Alberta, Canada. As the name implies, the trail winds to an overlook of a handful of hoodoos and a beautiful view of the river below. Here's a...
Bozeman Hike – Pine Creek Trail
Pine Creek Falls Trail is a very busy and popular short hike to a beautiful waterfall. The Pine Creek trailhead is on the east side of Paradise Valley about ten miles south of Livingston, MT, an approximately 40 minute drive from Bozeman along I-90. The Pine Creek...
Bozeman Hike – Drinking Horse Mountain Trail
Drinking Horse Mountain Trail is a great shorter hike that's near Bozeman, but offers really awesome panoramic views at the top. The trail is a 3.5 mile loop composed of a figure eight that climbs over 700 feet from Bridger Creek at the bottom to the 5,522 foot summit...
Bozeman Hike – Middle Cottonwood Creek Trail
Middle Cottonwood Creek Trail is a moderate hike near Bozeman, MT of about six miles out and back that follows the path of Cottonwood Creek for nearly the entire trail. This provides great views of various waterfalls, cascades, and pools, as well as several easy creek...
Beautiful Mountains in Grand Teton National Park
Grand Teton National Park is one of the most iconic of the U.S. National Parks, and has amazing mountain views in almost every foot of the 310,000 acres. Grand Teton has an awesome variety of forest, lake, and river habitats that are home to an equally large variety...
Incredible Vistas in Canyonlands National Park
Canyonland National Park is only 40 minutes Southwest of Moab, UT, and is Utah's largest park with more than 337,000 acres (around 527 square miles) of deep canyons, towering mesas, pinnacles, cliffs, and spires. Canyonlands has more than 70 marked trails that cover...
Amazing Sights in Arches National Park
Arches National Park is just north of Moab in the state of Utah, and is home to more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches and over 30 miles of hiking trails. You can download or view a variety of maps on the National Park Service site at: Arches National Park. We...
Cliff Palace Cave Dwelling Tour – Mesa Verde National Park
The Cliff Palace is the most popular of the Mesa Verde National Park cliff dwellings to tour. The Cliff Palace tour was our second (and favorite) tour of the Mesa Verde cliff dwellings. Cliff Palace doesn't have the 32 foot ladder or sketchy path down the cliff that...
Balcony House Hike – Mesa Verde, Colorado
Balcony House is a 0.25-mile (0.4 km) hike at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado. Balcony House is a medium sized cliff dwelling with numerous rooms, kivas, and plazas. The Park Service at Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado calls this their most "adventurous" tours in...
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Sightseeing Posts
Amazing scenery on Needles Highway – Custer State Park SD
Needles Highway is a 14-mile stretch of South Dakota Highway 87 through Custer State Park in the Black Hills, named for the granite spires that pierce the skyline along the drive. Budget at least an hour for the drive itself, longer if you stop at the pullouts, and...
Awesome hike in Denver metro – William F. Hayden Park on Green Mountain
With more than 2,400 acres of open space, William Frederick Hayden Park on Green Mountain is the second largest park in Lakewood. The park features a challenging network of multi-use trails. The 6,800 ft. summit of Green Mountain Trail offers unique and stunning views...
Easy hike with scenic views – Bluff Regional Park
Bluff Regional Park is an easy hike on an easily accessed trail of just less than four miles in Littleton, CO. The 3.72 mile trail has an easy 200 feet of elevation change, but provides beautiful views of the Colorado Front Range, the Denver metro area, and local...
Amazing trail infrastructure – Denver Greenway Trails
Denver is home to an amazing amount of trails and parks, one outstanding example is the more than 170 miles of Denver Greenway Trails. Composed of numerous trails all over the Denver metro area, including the High Line Trail, South Platte River Trail, and Clear Creek...
Nature ride in the city – Bear Creek Trail
Bear Creek Trail is a 12.5 mile greenway trail from Denver to Morrison CO, just outside of Red Rocks Amphitheater. The trail starts at an intersection with the South Platte River Trail and the Mary Carter Greenway Trail near the Riverpoint at Sheridan Shopping Area in...
Fairly easy but picturesque hike – Rock Park in Castle Rock Colorado
Rock Park features 1.5 miles of rocky and somewhat steep trails that offer a loop around Castle Rock and panoramic views of downtown Castle Rock, the Interstate 25 corridor, Pikes Peak and the Front Range. Despite the climb and the rockiness of some sections, the...
Mount Falcon Park, Morrison CO
Mount Falcon is a very scenic county park in Morrison, Colorado that offers more than 12 miles of challenging hiking and multi-use trails in an over 2,000 acre park. Only the relatively short (1.7 miles) Turkey Trot trail is marked for hiking only, making Mount Falcon...
Fun Denver Greenway Trail – Clear Creek Trail
The Clear Creek Trail is an eighteen mile paved trail from Denver to Golden, Colorado's first capital city. The trail runs from the South Platte River trail near where it crosses I-76 and winds along Clear Creek through a variety of areas including neighborhoods,...
Scenic Denver Greenway Trail – Cherry Creek Trail
The Cherry Creek Trail is a 40-mile concrete trail that stretches from Confluence Park in downtown Denver along Cherry Creek, through a trail complex near Cherry Creek Reservoir, and ultimately ending in Franktown. Similar to the other Denver Greenway trails, Cherry...
Great Denver Greenway Trail – South Platte River Trail
The South Platte River Trail is a 26+ mile trail that winds South through Denver from Brighton to Englewood. The trail follows the Platte River through Denver's urban landscape, including several industrial portions, and visits the trendy River North Art (RiNo) and...