Happy Halloween! If you love hiking and being scared, here are five trails to check out.
1. Warren Park Trail, Missoula, MT
About an hour outside Missoula, MT is Garnet Ghost Town, a well-preserved abdandoned village. In the 1800s, miners moved from places like Colorado and California hoping to strike it rich. By World War II, the town had been deserted with current upkeep maintained by volunteers and public donations. The Warren Park Trail is named for Edward Brook Warren, a Civil War veteran who built a cabin near Garnet, MT and someone you just might see on your hike. Photo: Garnet Ghost Town Facebook Page
2. Transept Trail, Grand Canyon National Park, AZ
This moderate level, 2-mile round-trip trail wanders up and down the canyon rim along The Transept, a canyon west of Grand Canyon Lodge and North Rim Campground. Supposedly, the Wailing Woman haunts the trail, a woman in a white dress with blue flowers mourning the loss of her husband and son who tragically died in a hiking accident on the same trail. Photo: National Park Service
3. Bloody Lane Trail, Antietam National Battlefield, MD
Bloody Lane Trail is a 1.6 mile long trail on Antietam National Battlefield in Maryland. This Civil War battle saw more than 5,500 men killed or wounded, with mass casualties on a fence-lined sunken farm road now known as Bloody Lane. Visitors report hearing gunshots and yelling, which could be the ghosts of the soldiers in their final moments. Photo: National Park Service
4. Iron Goat Trail, Washington
The Iron Goat Trail in Stevens Pass in the Central Cascades, is a 6.0-mile, moderate-level trail that is also haunted by the victims of one of the worst railroad crashes in US history. Almost 100 people died after an avalanche knocked two trains off the tracks. The trail is off-limits at night, as is going through the tunnels which are in danger of collapse. Spooky! Photo: Linda Roe, Washington Trails Association
5. Appalachian Trail, Bluff Mountain, VA
Bluff Mountain, a section of the Appalachian Trail in Virginia is a 4-mile round-trip hike that climbs almost 1300-feet in elevation with grandiose views of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It is also haunted by Otto Cline Powell, a boy who went missing in November of 1891 and was later found dead once the snow began to thaw in the spring. Photo: Northern Virginia Magazine