Trail · Completed 1937
Appalachian Trail
Springer Mountain to Katahdin
Fourteen states, a white blaze, and the long green tunnel from Georgia to Maine.
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Still at Springer Mountain
The road to Fontana Dam is 165 miles. A bronze plaque in the north Georgia woods. The first white blaze.
The road
Springer Mountain
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A bronze plaque in the north Georgia woods. The first white blaze.
Fontana Dam
165 mi
The door to the Smokies. A lake where a river used to be.
Hot Springs
274 mi
A trail town the path walks straight through.
Damascus
468 mi
Trail Days country. Virginia is long, and kind.
McAfee Knob
710 mi
The most photographed ledge on the trail. Still a long way to Maine.
Harpers Ferry
1,024 mi
Psychological midpoint. The ATC headquarters, and the Potomac.
Delaware Water Gap
1,292 mi
New Jersey and the last of the mid-Atlantic easy.
Kent
1,470 mi
Connecticut's river walk. New England begins in earnest.
Killington
1,690 mi
Vermont's high point on the AT. The Green Mountains do not hurry.
Mount Washington
1,848 mi
The worst weather in the world, some days. The Presidentials.
Monson
2,080 mi
The last town before the Hundred-Mile Wilderness.
Katahdin
2,198 mi
Baxter Peak. The sign, the knife edge, the end of the white blazes.
Appalachian Trail Conservancy, ~2,198 miles