Appalachian Trail Day/Section Hike

Starting: October 2024, ongoing

We started hiking AT from October 2024, and plan to day or section hike whenever we have the chance.

Appalachian Trail Introduction

The Appalachian Trail is a 2,190+ mile long public footpath that traverses the scenic, wooded, pastoral, wild, and culturally resonant lands of the Appalachian Mountains. Conceived in 1921, built by private citizens, and completed in 1937, today the trail is managed by the National Park Service in the category of “National Scenic Trail”, US Forest Service, Appalachian Trail Conservancy, numerous state agencies and thousands of volunteers. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims the AT to be the world’s longest hiking-only trail. More than 3 million people hike segments of it each year.

The trail travels 14 states along the crests and valleys of the Appalachian Mountain Range between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine:

Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.

The Appalachian Trail, the Continental Divide Trail, and the Pacific Crest Trail informally constitute the Triple Crown of Hiking in the United States.

Map Overview

Itinerary

Milage (Northbound)

Georgia

Mile 0.0 Springer Mountain - Southern Terminus

Mile 0.2 Springer Mountain Shelter

Mile 0.9 Big Stamp Gap/USFS42 (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 2.8 Stover Creek Shelter

Mile 4.3 Three Forks/USFS 58 (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 5.2 Side trail to Long Creek Falls

Mile 8.1 Hawk Mountain Shelter

Mile 8.6 Hightower Gap/USFS 58 (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 10.5 Horse Gap (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mille 11.5 Sassafras Mountain

Mile 12.2 Cooper Gap(Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 12.8 Justus Mountain

Mile 15.8 Gooch Mountain Shelter

Mile 17.2 Gooch Gap (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 19.3 Ramrock Mountain

Mile 19.8 Tritt Gap

Mile 20.8 Woody Gap (Parking, RoadX-paved, Hostel-7mile, Delonega-15mile, Post Office-2mile))

Mile 24.2 Lance Creek Campsite

Mile 26.4 Jarrard Gap

Mile 27.8 Woods Hole Shelter

Mile 29.0 Blood Mountain, Blood Mountain Shelter

Mile 30.4 Flatrock Gap (Parking-1mile)

Mile 30.5 Balance Rock

Mile 32.9 Neel Gap/US19, 129 (Parking, RoadX-paved, Hostel-7mile, Outfitter, Lodging-0.3mile)

Mile 32.5 Bull Gap

Mile 33.6 Swaim Gap

Mile 35.6 Baggs Creek Gap

Mile 37.4 Tesnatee Gap/GA 349 (Parking, RoadX-paved)

Mile 38.1 Whitley Gap Shelter

Mile 38.3 Hogpen Gap/GA 348 (Parking, RoadX-paved)

Mile 40.9 Wide Gap

Mile 42.9 Low Gap Shelter

Mile 44.3 Poplar Stamp Gap

Mile 47.9 Chattahoochee Gap

Mile 49.3 Spanlards Knob Campsite

Mile 50.2 Blue Mountain Shelter

Mile 52.6 Unicoi Gap/GA 75 (Parking, RoadX-paved, Hostel, Shuttle, Helen-11mile)

Mile 54 Rocky Mountain

Mile 55.3 Indian Grave Gap/USFS 283 (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 56 Tray Mountain Road/USFS 79 (RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 56.3 Cheese Factory Site

Mile 57 Tray Gap/USFS 76/698 (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 57.8 Tray Mountain

Mile 58.3 Tray Mountain Shelter

Mile 59.5 Wolfpen Gap

Mile 60.1 Steeltrap Gap

Mile 61.9 Swag of the Blue Ridge

Mile 63 Sassafras Gap

Mile 63.9 Addis Gap/USFS 26-2

Mile 65.7 Deep Gap Shelter

Mile 66.9 Moreland Gap

Mile 68.7 Snake Mountain

Mile 69.3 Dicks Creek Gap/US 76 (Parking, RoadX-paved, Shuttle, Outfitter, Hiawassee-11mile)

Mile 71.1 Cowart Gap

Mile 72.6 Bull Gap

Mile 73.8 Plumorchard Gap Shelter

Mile 75.1 Blue Ridge Gap/USFS 72 (Parking, RoadX-unpaved)

Mile 76.3 Rich Cove Gap

Mimle 78.2 GA/NC Boarder

Source: Thru-Hikers’ Companion 2017