American Trails sponsors the annual Photo Contest for designated National Recreation Trails. In celebration of these great trails we are presenting awards in several categories to highlight the diversity of NRTs, from backcountry trails to urban greenways. Here are our picks for 2022 from a record 591 photo submissions.
NOTE: you may link to these pages and photos but unauthorized copying is forbidden: all rights reserved to the photographers who provided these photos.
View all entries from 2022 in our Flickr gallery.
Historic Columbia River Hwy State Trail in Oregon
photo by Patrick Stark, US Fish and Wildlife Service
Resurrection Pass Trail in Alaska
photo by Mary Green, Kenai Peninsula Back Country Horsemen
Trinity River Paddling Trail in Texas
photo by Teresa Patterson, Trinity Coalition
Tunnel Hill State Trail in Illinois
photo by Jonathan Voelz, Friends of Tunnel Hill State Trail
Withlacoochee State Trail in Florida
photo by Heather Nagy, Friends of the Withlacoochee State Trail, Inc.
Schuylkill Trail at Schuylkill Banks in Pennsylvania
photo by Lane Fike, Schuylkill River Development Corporation
Log Flume Interpretive Trail in Washington
photo by Tri County Economic Development District
