>>2118533>You need to start planning longer tripsthe longest trip I did this past year was 3 nights, and I was absolutely exhausted by the end.
We do little hikes during the day, at multiple places often, and it adds up. If you are too sore to walk much, appalachia doesn't quite hold as much appeal.
I am not looking to backpack or hike very long distances, just experience a bunch of different areas of different types, views, waterfalls, bogs, tunnels, rivers.
Northern Midwest is simply too far. There is SO MUCH here, state parks, state forests, national forests, I can do a different trail every trip basically. There's thousands of different trails and parks here just in central appalachia alone and I have no desire to fly or drive all day.
I get it, most people here want to camp and backpack and do long distance trails, but that isn't me.
I like the idea of exploring local areas that are not national destinations.
