The Great Eight: Best Hiking Trails of the Northeast

The newly and nicely redesigned magazine, amc outdoors, offers up a very useful piece for readers who happen to live in the Northeast,describing eight great hikes in states from Virginia (OK, the Northeast is a little larger than expected) to Maine. AMC Outdoors gives us the usual goods: time, distance and difficulty; and more, including the name of the best closest watering hole, for those who have completed the hike (or those would rather spend the day drinking than walking).
And the winners are:
Breakneck Ridge, Hudson Valley, New York
Mount Tom Traverse via the Metacomet-Monadnock Trail Easthampton/Holyoke, Mass.
Old Rag Mountain, Shenandoah National Park, Va.
Cadillac Mountain via the South Ridge Trail Acadia National Park, Maine
Camels Hump via the Monroe and Dean Trails Northern Vermont
Rattlesnake Swamp Trail/Appalachian Trail Delaware Water Gap, N.J.
Bondcliff Traverse, Pemigewasset Wilderness Central White Mountains, New Hampshire
Welch-Dickey Loop Southern White Mountains, New Hampshire
To learn what makes these eight hikes classics, read AMC Outdoors, then think about joining the club.