John Muir's World Travels

For a comprehensive, detailed list, with links to writings about most of these, see Places Important to John Muir

  • Scotland to America (1849)
  • Canada (1864)
  • 1000-Mile Walk from Indiana to Florida (Kentucky,Tennessee, Georgia, Florida) (1867)
  • Cuba (1868)
  • New York (1868)
  • Panama (1868)
  • San Francisco (1868)
  • Alaska (1879, 1880, 1881, 1890, 1896, 1897, 1899)
  • Chicago World's Fair, Boston, Concord, New York (1893)
  • Europe (1893)
    • Liverpool
    • Edinburgh
    • Dunbar
    • Norway (Trondheim)
    • England (Lake District; London)
    • Switzerland
    • Italy
    • London
    • Ireland
    • Scottish Highlands
    • Edinburgh
    • Dunbar
    • New York City
    • Washington, D.C.
    • San Francisco (a journey of many months)
  • Eastern Trip (1898)
    • North Carolina (Grandfather Mountain)
    • Tennessee (Knoxville)
    • Boston
    • Canada (Montreal, St. Lawrence River)
    • Maine
    • Vermont
    • NYC
    • Washington, D.C.
    • Florida
    • Texas (a journey of several months)
  • World Tour (1903)
    • London
    • Paris
    • Finland
    • Russia (Ukraine, Moscow, Siberia)
    • Korea
    • China
    • India - In 1903, John Muir spent the following month traveling all around the Indian subcontinent, including Calcutta, Darjeeling, Simla, Bombay in India, plus Ceylon. Two recent books engage readers with the story of Muir's travels in India.
    • Egypt
    • Australia
    • New Zealand
    • Philippines
    • China
    • Japan
    • Hawaii
    • San Francisco (a journey of nearly one year)
  • Arizona with Helen and Wanda (Adamana, Petrified Forest) (1905); Grand Canyon with John Burroughs (1909)
  • NYC, D.C., Boston (1911)
  • South America and Africa (1911-1912)
    • Amazon (Brazil: Manaus, Rio de Janeiro)
    • Uruguay
    • Argentina (Buenos Aires)
    • Chile (to see the Araucaria (monkey-puzzle) trees)
    • Cape Town (January 1912)
    • Victoria Falls (to see baobab trees)
    • Up Eastern coast to Lake Victoria
    • Headwaters of the Nile
    • Mombasa
    • By sea via the Indian Ocean, the Gulf of Aden, through the Suez Canal, the Mediterranean, and across the Atlantic to New York City
    • San Francisco (a journey of more than seven months)
  • Daggett - Los Angeles (1914 - death on Christmas Eve)