Platform Migration Update (February 2026)

The TrailJournals platform migration continues to make progress. We're modernizing the infrastructure to improve performance, reliability, and maintainability. Journal viewing, user authentication, and photo galleries are working on the new platform, and we're now migrating additional features including user admin tools and journal management. We'll switch to the new platform once all key functionality is ready. Thank you for your continued patience and support!

Trail Journals unites hiking journal writers and the family, friends, and hikers who follow them. Encompassing thousands of journal entries and photographs — from the Appalachian Trail to the Pacific Crest Trail, ongoing hikes to excursions from the 1990s — Trail Journals chronicles millions of miles of hiking on 100-plus long distance trails thousands of hikers. If you have completed journals you would like to post, if you're planning a hike and beginning your journal entries, or you're already out there and have journals to share, or just looking to follow along create a new account and join the Trail Journals community.