Day Hiking Trails: Great places to day hike with kids: BLM land

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Great places to day hike with kids: BLM land

Fisher Towers, Utah. Photo courtesy of BLM.

The Bureau of Land management, an agency of the U.S. Department of the Interior, looks after public lands. About an eighth of the nation – more than 260 million acres – are public lands managed by the BLM, and you can go on most of it anytime you like. That’s a lot of land to hike, and if you live in the West, it’s probably not far from your city limits.

More great places to day hike with kids:
g Gem and fossil trails

Read more about day hiking with children in my guidebook Hikes with Tykes.

Meet the Author

My name is Rob Bignell. I'm a long-time hiker, journalist and editor. My son Kieran and I have been hiking together for the past decade. Before Kieran, I taught middle school students in New Mexico and Wisconsin, served as an infantryman in the Army National Guard, and worked in newspapers. I've won several journalism awards, from editorial writing to sports reporting. In 2001, The Prescott Journal, which I served as managing editor of, was named Wisconsin’s Weekly Newspaper of the Year. Currently I own and operate an online editing business, Inventing Reality Editing Service. After spending several years in Southern California, my son and I now live in Wisconsin on the scenic Red Cedar River.