CIO Bulletin

Unforgettable Hiking Vacations that Connect, Inspire and Achieve: Wildland Trekking

Welcome to Wildland Trekking! They offer premier hiking vacations across the U.S.A. and the globe. Many adventure companies focus on multiple sports, but not them – they are 100% focused on the trekking experience. With exceptional guides, fantastic meals, top-of-the-line gear, dialed-in logistics, incredible support staff, and award-winning itineraries, the company is passionate about providing unforgettable trekking experiences for guests all over the world!

Q. What is unique about Wildland Trekking?

Professional, Expert Guides

Wildland Trekking’s commitment is to hire and train the best guides in the industry. They seek out career-minded guides with extensive personal and professional wilderness experience, as well as hard skills and certifications. Perhaps most important though is that Wildland guides are knowledgeable, friendly, helpful and passionate.

Small Group Tours

What the company is most interested in is showing their guests the magic of the backcountry. When possible, they prefer to get their groups not only far away from roads and crowds, but even off hiking trails. This type of intimate wilderness travel is most conducive to small groups, with often max of 5 or 6 guests, and at most 12.

Choice of Trip Styles

Wildland Trekking very well knows that among people who love to hike, there is a wide range of preference in terms of the type of hiking and/or accommodations on a trip. With backpacking trips, llama treks, portered trips, inn-based tours, camping-based tours and day hikes, the company offers the ability to hand-pick your personal preferences.

Basecamp tours

A Wildland Trekking Camping Tour is an incredible way to have an adventurous outdoor experience of world renowned national parks and wilderness destinations while hiking with only a light daypack and sleeping soundly in comfortable, vehicle-accessible camps. Led by expert hiking guides, they set up camp in established campgrounds (with showers) and embark on a series of unforgettable hikes! Wildland also provides all the gear, meals, transportation, permits, fees and reservations so you can focus 100% on hiking and enjoying your national park camping vacation.

Your only “job” on these trips is absorbing and enjoying everything the national park, or parks, of your choice have to offer – their breathtaking views, challenging and fulfilling hikes, awe-inspiring natural and cultural history, wildlife, and unique natural wonders.

Family friendly trips

Wildland’s recommended family trips are great opportunities for families with school age children to travel as a family, enjoy amazing hiking destinations, and to feel confident that what you’re embarking on is appropriate for your family. The main criteria they use to determine a good family trip are the difficulty of the hiking (easy to moderate), the weight of the backpacks (10-20 pounds), and flexibility with itineraries. Active, strong children 12 and older can certainly enjoy additional trips, so these are merely suggestions. Finally, appropriateness of a trip is subjective and should be determined on a case by case basis by evaluating the nature and demands of the trip, and the fitness and experience of your family.

Inn-based trips

During the company’s Inn-Based Trips, your only “job” is absorbing and enjoying all the destination of your choice has to offer – its breathtaking views, challenging and fulfilling days of hiking, awe-inspiring natural and cultural history, wildlife, and unique natural wonders.

You’ll hike by day and at night sleep in cabins, hotels, lodges, homestays, huts (Iceland), refugios (Patagonia) or teahouses (Nepal). The character and amenities of these accommodations vary significantly by destination and trip, some being quite elaborate and others being very basic. Some of our tours feature a mix of camping and lodging. To have a room to yourself, where available, please take note of the single room supplements.

Guided llama treks

Join Wildland for a multi-day llama-supported hiking adventure! Explore Yellowstone National Park, the iconic Wind River Range, off-the-beaten-path mountains around Jackson Hole, the west side of the Tetons, Rocky Mountain National Park, Utah’s Canyon Country or Peru’s amazing Rainbow Mountain trail. Their llama treks are all-inclusive hiking vacations that take you to some of the most beautiful mountain country in the United States and beyond.

Aside from carrying the bulk of the supplies, allowing guests to hike with light day packs, llamas are amazing trail companions. You can choose to lead a llama or just hike on your own, but either way you’re likely to fall in love with these amazing animals by the end of your trip.

Recently added trips

Acadia: summits to ocean inn-based

This classic New England adventure is a 4-day odyssey featuring spectacular hiking in Acadia National Park and an all-around experience of everything coastal Maine has to offer. Wildland base is at a premium, seaside hotel in beautiful Bar Harbor and venture each day into Acadia National Park to hike, explore, learn and discover. They hike along mountain summit ridges, traverse rocky coastlines and walk through dense Spruce forests as they cover much of Mount Desert Island. They will also explore beyond the island with an ocean ferry to the stunning Schoodic Peninsula.

Your Guide will prepare delicious trail lunches and each night they will retire to the comfort of their Bar Harbor lodge to dine on locally caught seafood and enjoy evening oceanside walks. In short, this Acadia hiking tour features the best of New England’s most famous national park, and is a true bucket list adventure!

Alpine peaks, lakes & waterfalls thru hike

This diverse Rocky Mountain National Park backpacking trip offers stunning mountain scenery, on and off trail hiking, visits to wonderful historical sites, cascading waterfalls, and summits a remote 13,000 foot peak. It quite literally has it all! It is also a point to point hike, which means all new scenery every day. And with ample opportunities for day hikes from our scenic campsites, and relaxation at alpine lakes, it is an action-packed but well balanced adventure. Whether you are a seasoned backpacker, just starting out, or somewhere in between, this trip is sure to offer something new for everyone!

Best of lassen volcanic basecamp

Join Wildland Trekking for a 5 day, 4 night hiking and camping adventure as they explore all Lassen Volcanic National Park has to offer! Their professional transportation partner picks guests up at the designated hotel in Sacramento the first morning for transport to the Park, where the guide is waiting with camp all ready for our week of adventure. Over the following days they will explore the area on a series of memorable day hikes that showcase the wonders of this incredibly unique national park. Wildland hikes visit thermal features, waterfalls, mountain lakes, incredible views, lava beds, cinder cones, calderas and culminate with an ascent of the 10,463 ft Lassen Peak itself!

Lassen Volcanic National Park offers stunning mountain scenery plus amazing volcanic features – and minus the crowds of other California national parks. Come join Wildland for a week of hiking and discovery you’ll remember forever!

Appalachian fall foliage tour

Every autumn, the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee go through a magical and breathtaking transformation. The diverse deciduous forests of the Great Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains combust in a kaleidoscope of fantastic colors: vibrant reds, deep oranges, yellows, pinks and more. The trees that comprise this region’s amazing forests – sugar maple, scarlet oak, sweetgum, red maple, hickory and more – cover the mountains’ high peaks, ridges and valleys. When they begin their autumn transformation, they treat us to one of nature’s most stunning displays. As we hike, sightsee and learn about the area, we explore a mountain landscape abundant with pristine creeks, waterfalls, wildlife, big mountain views, history and more.

Steve C (Co-Founder, General Manager, Director of Sales)

Steve, worked as a natural resources specialist for federal and state governments before discovering his passion for leading people into wild places. After this revelation, he spent his working life as a wilderness counselor for at-risk youth in Utah and as an outdoor educator and hiking guide, before co-founding the Wildland Trekking Company. Steve is a personable and attentive owner and guide who is dedicated to seeing that his guests get as much out of their wilderness hiking experience as possible. Also an avid rock climber, he can usually be found scaling the cliffs of his usual haunts when not in the office or the field.