Hiking, Backpacking, and Getting to Know Nature

Generally Backpacking

• The FIRST Thing: Leave No Trace
• Chuck's Backpacking Bonanza: Backcountry Backpacking
• The Backpacker
• A Backpacker's Page...
• The Backpacker's Guide
• HIKENET: Hiking, Climbing and Backcountry Adventures
• The Wilderness Backpacker
• The Wilderness Journal
• Backpacker Magazine
• Outside Magazine Online
• Trailside Campsite

Going Light

• Backpacking Lightweight
• Ultralight Hiking Page
• Michael's Ultralight Backpacking Page

Learning

• PageWise: Camping Tips
• Basecamp
• The Outdoor Action Home Page
• Boreal Wilderness Institute, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
• 101+ Hiking Tips
• Sundance Outdoor Adventure Society: Hiking Tips
• Distilled Wisdom
• Advice from Hikers
• Backpacking Knowledge & Wisdom Nuggets
• How to See the World (25 chapters, 80,000 words, 120 illustrations)
• Snakebites
• Wilderness Survival & Primitive Skills

Maps and Navigation

• USGS National Mapping Information: Home Page
• Finding Your Way with Map and Compass
• How To Use a Compass
• Learn Orienteering
• Colorado Firstrax Skiing Webzine, Map and Compass
• Florida Orienteering Maps
• Topo Zone
• MapQuest! Welcome!
• Welcome to TerraServer
• National Geographic Maps

Equipment

• Tips and Techniques for sewing your own Outdoor Gear
• NativeTech: Native American Technology and Art
• How-to Survival Library
• Homemade Back Pack Stove
• REI Home Page
• Campmor
• Travel Country Outdoors (Orlando)
• Eastern Mountain Sports
• Theoutdoor.com Gear
• Campman.com
• Clark Jungle Hammock

Places

• Florida Hiking Trails
• Wilderness Trekkers (Central Florida)
• Florida Trail Association
• Ocala National Forest
• Hiking and Fly-Fishing in Florida
• Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation: Trails
• Canaveral National Seashore: Camping
• Little River Canyon National Preserve, Alabama
• Little River Canyon
• DeSoto State Park
• Oak Mountain State Park
• Blue Ridge Parkway
• Ohio State Forests & Recreation
• I-75 Kentucky State Parks
• Explore Outdoors
• Adventure Sports Online Wilderness Travel Directory

Miscellanea

• Appalachian Trail 2 Meter Repeater Guide v1.1
• NFSD: So Easy to Preserve: Drying
• Other Recreation Web Sites

Please address praise, scorn, and other comments concerning the design of this and other personal web pages to Ken McCoy (kmccoy@stetson.edu)

Last update: January 25, 2003