Backpacking Info Site

Want to have a get away from the busy city life for a few days or have a nice adventurous weekend get away. Then have a backpacking trip to the wonderful places in the state of Kentucky with its parks and getaway spots. State parks have extensive and excellent adventurous events planned and wonderful opportunities for people to get outside their homes. Kentucky has a lot to offer for adventure and recreation along with the states beautiful scene areas.

The Natural Bridge State Resort Park is the ideal place for those keen learners of the adventure sport; canoeing .This Park offers an experience to the new learners of canoeing with river trips for a distance of 8 miles and at the same time lets you enjoy the lovely red river class 1 section. The fee for initial registration per person is dollars 25 which includes canoeing gears like life jacket, paddle, canoe and a guide.

Take an overnight trip to the Barren river lake state resort park where you can have an overnight outing under the stars with their own equipment, for  7 dollars. This resort unfortunately does not allow you to carry your own equipment, so you will have to leave your Outwell Hartford XL family tent at home. Nevertheless, the resort does supply you with suitable camping and hiking gear. You can just register and have an overnight outing with the guides and enjoy the pure essence of night life adventure in the barren river lake. The natural Bridge state resort park is another outing for the new backpacking individuals for just dollars 85. This resort trains you in the basics of backpacking with their trips of a distance of 8 to 10 miles. Here the visitors are required to carry a weight of 30 pounds in their outing and must most definitely be at an age of 18 or above.

So what you waiting for, Kentucky is waiting for you. Pack you bags and get onto one of the many backpacking resorts for your next adventurous outing.

When executive director of the “North Country Trail Association” (NCTA), Bruce Matthews, was visiting Delmar for an event to create a backpack trail spanning from North Dakota to New England, one of the striking features noticed by him was the fact that the mean age of local volunteers for hiking was in the mid-60s, meaning many volunteers’ were in the late 70s. He noticed this extreme shortage of the young volunteers in the event at other places also.

He recalls telling the volunteers present in the event that, though he loves to have them as they have the time and the income, but considering the future planning, he would also like to include young people in their 20s as they would be there for a lifetime.

This problem is also being encountered by other clubs like the “Taconic Hiking Club” having a membership of 150 out of which 50% are retired and the younger members are those in their early 40s.

Similar problems are also being faced by the “Adirondack Mountain Club” (ADK) and the “Appalachian Mountain Club” (AMC).

Taking this issue seriously most of the clubs are now trying to find young members. The “Schenectady Winter Sports Club” made efforts by launching recently a chapter specifically for the 18-30 years of age group with a view to get the young blood interested in the events. The “Adirondack Mountain Club” is doing a lot in this direction, like they are planning to organize events which are more family- friendly and simultaneously offering membership to first timers at very cheap rates. They are buying lists of addresses from various stores selling climbing gear and backpacking and are also marketing their lodges to be used by families. Young people are often attracted to more ‘active’ outdoor activities than simply hiking, such as taking a mountain bike like the Apollo Bikes XC.26S through the wilderness, skiing, snowboarding, motocross, four wheeling, etc. As a result many other clubs are trying to use these activities to attract new members like the “Out of Control Ski” Club which organizes discounted skiing trips and includes rides to the locations and organized get togethers after returning home.

If you enjoy nature, travel and hiking, then keep reading. Today there is a vast variety of beautiful destinations to choose from for hiking enthusiasts, and the real problem lies in narrowing down all the great options. One such location is, however, worth mentioning for its appeal to novice and expert hikers alike, as well as to those visiting for only a little while or a long while; namely, Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado.

Mesa Verde National Park in Colorado is a great place for hiking-backpackers who are into nature. This park  carries the legend of the Pueblo people who are famous for their architecture. The formation of the red colour rocks is one of the features that magnetize hikers and backpackers to its open area where one can explore openly or on a guided tour.

Mesa Verde which lies in the south west side of Colorado boost of its national park to be inhabited by the Pueblo civilization during the 12th to 13th century. Their ruins and famous sites still exist for all to see, besides their dwelling on cliff areas. To explore this is an adventure one would never forget, you can use the hiking trails along with the camp grounds that are supported by easy availability of food, fuel and lodging. Even though lodging is provided, you may still bring and use a tent, like the Terra Nova Saturn dome tent, if you wish to have a more ‘authentic’ camping and hiking experience. In addition there is an abundance of wildlife that can be noticed while you are camping.

The park is open daily all the year round and once inside there are many sites that you can view and enjoy.