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9 unusual facts about Appalachian Trail


Bean's Grant, New Hampshire

Many mountains of the Presidential Range are located here, including Mount Pierce, Mount Jackson and Mount Webster, each of which is traversed by the Appalachian Trail.

Belle Meade, Virginia

The Manassas Gap railway system runs through it, as well as being near the Appalachian Trail and the G Richard Thompson Wildlife Management Area.

Dawn Averitt

In 2000, Averitt completed a hike of the entire length of the Appalachian Trail called “Trekking with AIDS” to raise awareness about HIV and the reality that it can affect anyone, and to celebrate 12 years of successfully living with HIV.

Genevieve L. Hutchinson

For 53 years starting in 1921, she was a popular hostess to Appalachian Trail hikers.

High Breeze Farm

Wawayanda has 40 miles of bicycle and hiking trails, including an 11 mile section of the Appalachian Trail.

Megan Kalmoe

The 5'10" athlete would also like to travel to all of the U.S. National Parks, hike the Appalachian Trail, coach college rowing, and write an Academy Award-winning screenplay before earning an English PhD, writing a novel, and moving to South Africa.

Paris, Virginia

The Appalachian Trail passes through both of these public recreation areas.

Pennine Way

The path was the idea of the journalist and rambler Tom Stephenson, inspired by similar trails in the United States of America, particularly the Appalachian Trail.

Taylors Valley, Virginia

The community is busier during the spring and summer and its links along the Appalachian Trail brings an influx of hikers and campers into Taylors Valley.


Damascus, Virginia

Damascus is the home of the annual Trail Days festival, and is known as Trail Town USA due to the convergence of four scenic trails in the town, including the Appalachian Trail, U.S. Bicycle Route 76, The Iron Mountain Trail, and the Virginia Creeper Trail.

Sierra Club v. Morton

Those who hike the Appalachian Trail into Sunfish Pond, New Jersey, and camp or sleep there, or run the Allagash in Maine, or climb the Guadalupes in West Texas, or who canoe and portage the Quetico Superior in Minnesota, certainly should have standing to defend those natural wonders before courts or agencies, though they live 3,000 miles away.

Tennessee State Route 67

At the small, mountainous community of Hampton, the four-laned SR 67 veers left off U.S. Highway 19-E and begins as a two-lane segment, briefly passing by commercial areas with Hampton (including a U.S. post office, a Dollar General store and a non-attended public vehicle parking area for Appalachian Trail hikers arriving or entering the "AT" at Hampton), and then exiting Hampton over a high ridge.

World Access for the Blind

In fact, using this technique, there are a number of successful solo, unguided hikes at the Grand Canyon, Death Valley, Mount Whitney, and the Appalachian Trail.


see also

East Mountain

East Mountain, part of the southern Green Mountains located in Clarksburg, Massachusetts and traversed by the Appalachian Trail

Edward B. Garvey

The Ed Garvey Memorial Shelter on the Appalachian Trail at Weverton Cliffs at Weverton, Maryland near Harpers Ferry, West Virginia was built and named in his honor.