Introduction -- Planning your hike on the NCT -- New York. Onondaga Loop -- Sugar Hill State Forest and Watkins Glen State Park -- Mitchellsville Gorge -- Allegany State Park -- Pennsylvania. Henry's Mills -- Cook Forest State Park -- Hell's Hollow -- Wampum -- Ohio. Beaver Creek State Park -- Zoar Village and the Ohio and Eric Canal Towpath Trail -- Hocking Hills State Park/State Forest -- Shawnee State Forest -- Dayton -- Snaketown -- Michigan. Yankee Springs State Recreation Area and Barry State Game Area -- Lowell -- Birch Grove Trail Loop -- Bowman Lake Loop -- Manistee River Loop -- Traverse City -- Jordan River Pathway Loop -- Wilderness State Park Loop -- Tahquamenon Falls State Park -- Lake Superior shoreline -- Marquette -- Old Victoria overlooks -- Black River Falls -- Wisconsin. Wren Falls -- Porcupine Lake Wilderness -- Historic Portage and Brule Bog round-trips -- Minnesota. Milton Lake Esker -- Wetland wonders -- Shingobee-Anoway -- The Itasca Moraine chain of lakes -- Itasca State Park -- North Dakota. Sheyenne National Grasslands -- Sheyenne State Forest -- Lake Ashtabula -- Lonetree Wildlife Management Area -- Lake Sakakawea State Park.