Do you keep a hiking journal for your national park trips? 🥾📖

[Admin]

Photos capture the views, but I often forget the smaller details: a quiet stretch of trail, an unexpected wildlife sighting, or something I’d do differently next time.

That’s why we created HikeNotes by NPUSA, a free printable hiking journal and day hike planner. I’m involved in the project and would love feedback from fellow hikers.

Hike Notes has room for trail details, distance, elevation gain, weather, stamps, sketches, and favorite memories.

Hike Plan helps organize your route, packing checklist, expected return time, and an at-home contact.

Both come in A6 and A5. You can print blank pages or fill them in online and download a PDF. There are print layouts for US Letter and A4, and no account is needed.

The idea is simple: collect a few pages after each hike and gradually build a personal national park travel journal.

You can explore the templates here:
https://www.hikenotes.com/downloads

How do you keep track of your hikes—paper journal, hiking app, photos, or something else?

And if you use a trail journal, what’s the one thing you always write down? A favorite moment, trail conditions, wildlife, or whether you’d hike it again?

We’d love to hear what would make these pages more useful for your next national park adventure.

 

[zekemoose66]

Photos capture the views, but I often forget the smaller details: a quiet stretch of trail, an unexpected wildlife sighting, or something I’d do differently next time.

That’s why we created HikeNotes by NPUSA, a free printable hiking journal and day hike planner. I’m involved in the project and would love feedback from fellow hikers.

Hike Notes has room for trail details, distance, elevation gain, weather, stamps, sketches, and favorite memories.

Hike Plan helps organize your route, packing checklist, expected return time, and an at-home contact.

Both come in A6 and A5. You can print blank pages or fill them in online and download a PDF. There are print layouts for US Letter and A4, and no account is needed.

The idea is simple: collect a few pages after each hike and gradually build a personal national park travel journal.

You can explore the templates here:

How do you keep track of your hikes—paper journal, hiking app, photos, or something else?

And if you use a trail journal, what’s the one thing you always write down? A favorite moment, trail conditions, wildlife, or whether you’d hike it again?

We’d love to hear what would make these pages more useful for your next national park adventure.

I usually only jot down trail conditions and the one odd thing that happened, photos handle the rest. A blank notes section matters more to me than a super detailed checklist.