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Also in memory of John Muir, East Lothian Council has completed a new long distance path in South-East Scotland, opened in September 2007. The John Muir Way (not Trail!) runs for 45 miles, from Cockburnspath (eastern end of the Southern Upland Way) via Dunbar to the edge of Edinburgh, part of the ultra-long North Sea Coastal Trail. The Way, of course, offers a very different experience to the Trail, but is nevertheless a fitting memorial on this side of the Atlantic, to the founding father of the world wide National Park movement.

Parks along the JMT

The John Muir Trail passes through three of North America’s finest and best-known national parks.

Yosemite is known the world over for its high, spectacular mountains and for some of the most stunning, high and technically difficult rock faces anywhere on earth. Few outdoor people will not know of Half Dome and El Capitan, the latter a huge rock monolith (the largest single granite rock on earth) towering above Yosemite Valley and very popular with the world’s top climbers. Yosemite is a natural wonderland of high mountains, granite cliffs, waterfalls, alpine lakes, tarns and streams. Two of the world’s ten highest waterfalls are found in the park, Upper Yosemite and Ribbon Falls.