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Many of the articles/posts on this site were moved from www.hut2hut.info to this US Hut Alliance website. The idea is to turn USHutAlliance.org into the “go-to” place for information about huts, and also to archive the original hut2hut content. Once the US Hut Alliance is adding new content regularly and has become the primary source of substantive information about huts for its members and for the public, Sam Demas will phase out the hut2hut.info website..
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More hut-to-hut hiking in USA? Part 2: Challenges
Part 2 outlines the challenges inherent in creating more hut systems in the USA, including environmental protection, regulatory environment,siting, design and construction, etc.
What is the Environmental Impact of Huts? Lets find out!
A call for research to identify the extent and forms of environmental impacts of huts compared with other forms of overnight stays in the backcountry.
Trail Tracks Editorial in “American Trails”, Fall 2017: Hut-to-Hut is growing
An invited editorial published in the Fall 2017 issue of American Trails. It is a call to trails professionals, recreation planners, and land managers to acknowledge that hut systems are no longer just peripheral, “accepted anomalies” on the American recreational landscape. They are a growing grass-roots movement that needs support and guidance.
