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.
Length by Section (Miles):
Maine
New Hampshire - Vermont
Massachusetts - Connecticut
New York - New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Maryland - West Virginia - Northern Virginia
Shenandoah National Park
Central Virginia
Southwest Virgina
Tennessee - North Carolina
North Carolina - Georgia
Source: Appalachian Trail Datebook 2024
282.0
311.7
142.4
163.7
230.0
95.2
107.8
226.8
166.8
304.0
167.0
Map Overview
Day 1 October 13, 2024 [Georgia] Mile 0 - Mile 4.3: Sprinter Mt. - Three Forks
Day 2 October 14, 2024 [Georgia] Mile 4.3 - Mile 17.2: Three Forks - Gooch Gap
Day 3 February 15, 2025 [Georgia] Mile 17.2 - Mile 27.8: Gooch Gap - Woods Hole Shelter
Day 4 February 16, 2025 [Georgia] Mile 27.8 - Mile 38.3: Woods Hole Shelter - Hogpen Gap
Day 5 March 6, 2025 [Georgia] Mile 38.3 - Mile 53.3: Hogpen Gap - Unicoi Gap, Stream
Day 6 March 7, 2025 [Georgia] Mile 53.3 - Mile 69.4: Unicoi Gap - Dicks Creek Gap
Day 7 March 8, 2025 [Georgia] Mile 86.2 - Mile 75.6: Deep Gap - Blue Ridge Gap (SOBO)
Itinerary
Milage (Northbound)*
Amicalola Falls Approach Trail
Mile 0.0 Amicalola Falls State Park, Visitor Center
Mile 0.6 Base of Amicalola Falls
Mile 1.2 Amicalola Lodge Road
Mile 1.5 USFS 46
Mile 3.2 High Shoals Road
Mile 4.8 Frosty Mountain
Mile 5.1 Frosty Mountain Road/USFS 46
Mile 6.0 Nimblewill Gap/USFS 28
Mile 6.8 Black Mountain
Mile 7.3 Black Gap Shelter
Mile 8.8 Sprinter Mountain
Georgia
Mile 0.0 Springer Mountain - Southern Terminus
Mile 0.2 Springer Mountain Shelter
Mile 1.0 Big Stamp Gap/USFS-42 (Parking, X-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 6.2 Hickory Flats/USFS-251
Mile 7.4 Hawk Mountain Campsite
Mile 8.1 Hawk Mountain Shelter
Mile 8.6 Hightower Gap/USFS 42/69 (Parking, X-unpaved)
Mile 10.5 Horse Gap (Parking, X-unpaved)
Mille 11.5 Sassafras Mountain
Mile 12.2 Cooper Gap/USFS 42/80(Parking, X-unpaved)
Mile 12.8 Justus Mountain
Mile 13.1 Brookshire Gap
Mile 14.3 Justus Creek Tentpads
Mile 15.8 Gooch Mountain Shelter
Mile 16.9 Gooch Gap/USFS 42 (Parking, X-unpaved)
Mile 18.2 Liss Gap
Mile 18.8 Jacks Gap
Mile 19.0 Ramrock Mountain
Mile 19.5 Tritt Gap
Mile 20.5 Woody Gap/GA 60 (Parking, X-paved)
Mile 21.7 Preaching Rock
Mile 21.9 Big Cedar Mountain
Mile 22.4 Augerhole Gap
Mile 22.9 Dan Gap
Mile 23.7 Miller Gap
Mile 24.0 Lance Creek Campsite
Mile 24.8 Henry Gap
Mile 25.7 Burnett Field Mountain
Mile 26.3 Jarrard Gap
Mile 26.7 Gaddis Mountain
Mile 27.4 Turkey Stamp Mountain
Mile 27.7 Woods Hole Shelter
Mile 28.1 Blood Mountain Campsite
Mile 28.9 Blood Mountain, Blood Mountain Shelter
Mile 30.3 Flatrock Gap (Parking-1mile)
Mile 30.4 Balance Rock
Mile 31.3 Neel Gap/US19, 129 (Parking, X-paved, Outfitter)
Mile 32.4 Bull Gap
Mile 32.8 Levelland Mountain
Mile 33.5 Swaim Gap
Mile 34.3 Rock Spring Top
Mile 35.0 Wolf Laurel Top
Mile 35.5 Baggs Creek Gap
Mile 36.3 Cowlick Mountain
Mile 37.3 Tesnatee Gap/GA 349 (Parking, X-paved)
Mile 38.1 Whitley Gap Shelter
Mile 38.3 Hogpen Gap/GA 348 (Parking, X-paved)
Mile 40.3 Poor Mountain
Mile 41.0 Wide Gap
Mile 42.2 Sheep Rock Top
Mile 43.0 Low Gap Shelter
Mile 44.4 Poplar Stamp Gap
Mile 46.8 Cold Springs Gap
Mile 48.0 Chattahoochee Gap
Mile 48.7 Red Clay Gap
Mile 49.3 Spanlards Knob Campsite
Mile 49.8 Rocky Knob
Mile 49.9 Henson Gap
Mile 50.3 Blue Mountain Shelter
Mile 51.2 Blue Mountain
Mile 52.6 Unicoi Gap/GA 75 (Parking, X-paved, Hostel, Shuttle)
Mile 54.1 Rocky Mountain
Mile 55.4 Indian Grave Gap/USFS 283 (Parking, X-unpaved)
Mile 56 Tray Mountain Road/USFS 79 (X-unpaved)
Mile 56.4 Cheese Factory Site
Mile 57.1 Tray Gap/USFS 76/698 (Parking, X-unpaved)
Mile 57.9 Tray Mountain
Mile 58.4 Tray Mountain Shelter
Mile 59.6 Wolfpen Gap
Mile 60.2 Steeltrap Gap
Mile 60.7 Younglick Knob
Mile 62.0 Swag of the Blue Ridge
Mile 63.1 Sassafras Gap
Mile 64.0 Addis Gap/USFS 26-2
Mile 65.0 Kelly Knob
Mile 65.7 Deep Gap Shelter
Mile 66.8 Campsite
Mile 67.0 McClure Gap
Mile 67.2 Powell Mountain
Mile 68.2 Moreland Gap
Mile 68.8 Snake Mountain
Mile 69.4 Dicks Creek Gap/US 76 (Parking, X-paved, Shuttle)
Mile 70.5 Little Bald Knob Campsite
Mile 71.2 Cowart Gap
Mile 72.3 Buzzard Knob
Mile 72.7 Bull Gap
Mile 73.9 Plumorchard Gap Shelter
Mile 74.6 As Knob
Mile 75.2 Blue Ridge Gap/USFS 72 (Parking, Dirt Road)
Mile 76.2 Wheeler Knob
Mile 76.4 Rich Cove Gap
Mimle 78.3 GA/NC Boarder
North Carolina
Mile 78.4 Bly Gap
Mile 79.1 Sharp Top
Mile 79.8 Courthouse Blad
Mile 80.3 Sassafras Gap
Mile 81.2 Muskrat Creek Shelter
Mile 82.0 Whiteoak Stamp
Mile 83.1 Wateroak Gap
Mile 85.2 Deep Gap/USFS 71 (P, X-Unpaved)
Mile 86.1 Standing Indian Shelter
Mile 90.5 Beech Gap
Mile 92.3 Coleman Gap
Mile 93.7 Carter Gap Shelter
Mile 95.1 Ridgepole Mountain
Mile 95.4 Little Ridgepole Vista
Mile 97.7 Betty Creek Gap
Mile 98.3 Mooney Gap/USFS 83 (P, X)
Mile 98.6 Log Steps
Mile 99.2 Bearpen Gap/USFS 67
Mile 99.9 Albert Mountain: firetower ?
Mile 100.5 Big Spring Gap
Mile 102.4 Long Branch Shelter
Mile 103.3 Glassmine Gap
Mile 105.8 Rock Gap Shelter
Mile 105.9 Rock Gap/USFS 67
Mile 106.5 Wallace Gap
Mile 109.6 Winding Stair Gap/US-64
Mile 109.8 East Fork Moore Creek: Bridge, waterfall
Mile 110.5 Moore Creek Campsite
Mile 110.7 Swinging Lick Gap
Mile 111.6 Panther Gap
Mile 113.3 Siler Bald Shelter
Mile 115.5 Wayah Gap/SR 1310 (paved)
Mile 116.8 Wilson Lick Ranger Station
Mile 117.3 USFS 69
Mile 119.6 Latrines/USFS 69
Mile 119.7 Wayah Bald: stone observation tower
Mile 120.6 Wayah Shelter
Mile 121.9 Licklog Gap
Mile 124.2 Burningtown Gap/SR 1397
Mile 125.4 Cold Spring Shelter
Mile 126.1 Cooper Ridge Bald Lookout
Mile 127.6 Big Branch Campsite
Mile 129.0 Tellico Gap/SR 1365
Mile 130.4 Wesser Bald Observation Tower
Mile 131.2 Wesser Bald Shelter
Mile 133.0 Jump-up Lookout
Mile 136.1 A. Rufus Morgan Shelter
Mile 136.9 Nantahala River/US 19/US 74
Mile 137.0 Railroad tracks
Mile 138.5 Wright Gap/Dirt Road
Mile 139.2 Tyre Knob
Mile 139.6 Campsite
Mile 140.0 Grassy Gap
Mile 143.1 Swim Bald: views of the Smokies
Mile 144.0 Sassafras Gap Shelter
Mile 145.2 Cheoah Bald
Mile 145.6 Bartram Trail
Mile 147.6 Locust Cove Gap
Mile 148.6 Simp Gap
Mile 150.0 Ridge High Point
Mile 150.7 Stecoah Gap/NC 143
Mile 151.7 Sweetwater Gap
Mile 153.1 Brown Fork Gap Shelter
Mile 153.5 Brown Fork Gap
Mile 155.3 Hogback Gap
Mile 156.1 Cody Gap
Mile 158.5 Yellow Creek Gap/NC 1242 (paved)
Mile 159.4 Cable Gap Shelter
Mile 160.8 Black Gum Gap
Mile 162.2 Walker Gap
Mile 162.6 Campsite
Mile 162.7 Crest of Bee Cove Lead
Mile 164.9 NC 28
Mile 165.0 SR 1245
Mile 166.2 Fontana Hilton Shelter
Mile 166.6 Fontana Dam Visitor Center
Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Mile 167.0 Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Southern Entry)
Mile 171.3 Shuckstack Firetower
Mile 171.6 Sassafras Gap
Mile 172.6 Birch Spring Gap, Campsite 113
Mile 174.8 Doe Knob
Mile 175.3 Mud Gap
Mile 176.3 Ekaneetlee Gap
Mile 178.0 Mollies Ridge Shelter
Mile 178.5 Devils Tater Patch
Mile 179.6 Little Abrams Gap
Mile 181.1 Russell Filed Shelter
Mile 181.4 McCampbell Gap
Mile 184.0 Spence Field Shelter
Mile 185.1 Rocky Top
Mile 185.7 Thunderhead
Mile 186.8 Beechnut Gap
Mile 187.4 Mineral Gap
Mile 187.7 Brier Knob
Mile 188.3 Starkey Gap
Mile 189.1 Sugar Tree Gap
Mile 190.1 Derrick Knob Shelter
Mile 190.4 Sams Gap
Mile 192.5 Cold Spring Knob
Mile 192.8 Buckeye Gap
MIle 195.8 Silers Bald Shelter
Mile 196.0 Silers Bald
Mile 197.0 Jenkins Knob
Mile 197.5 Double Spring Gap Shelter
Mile 199.9 Mt. Buckley
Mile 200.3 Kuwohi (Clingmans Dome)
Mile 200.8 Mt. Love
Mile 201.0 Collins Gap
Mile 202.7 Mt. Collins
Mile 203.1 Mt. Collins Shelter
Mile 206.3 Indian Gap
Mile 206.7 Mt. Mingus Lead
Mile 208.0 Newfound Gap/US 441/TN-71
Mile 210.5 Mt. Ambler
Mile 211.1 Ice water Spring Shelter
Mile 212.4 Dry Sluice Gap
Mile 213.4 Porters Gap
Mile 214.7 False Gap
Mile 216.5 Bradley’s View
Mile 218.5 Peck’s Corner Shelter
Mile 220.2 Copper Gap
Mile 220.9 Mt. Sequoyah
Mile 221.9 Chapman Gap
Mile 222.6 High Point on Mt. Chapman
Mile 223.7 Tri-Corner Knob Shelter
Mile 225.1 Guyot Spur
Mile 226.2 Cross Pinnacle Lead
Mile 226.7 Deer Creek Gap
Mile 227.4 Yellow Creek Gap
Mile 227.7 Inadu Knob
Mile 229.0 Camel Hump Knob
Mile 229.9 Camel Gap
Mile 231.0 Cosby Knob
MIle 231.4 Cosby Knob Shelter
Mile 232.1 Low Gap
MIle 234.2 Mt. Cammerer: firetower
Mile 238.3 Davenport Gap Shelter
Mile 239.4 Davenport Gap/TN-32/SR-1397 (Eastern Entry)
NC & TN Border
Mile 240.7 State Line Branch
Mile 240.9 Pigeon River
Mile 241.3 I-40
Mile 241.8 Green Corner Road
Mile 244.1 Painter Branch Campsite
Mile 245.0 Spanish Oak Gap
Mile 246.5 Snowbird Mountain
Mile 247.0 Campsite
Mile 247.2 Wildcat Spring
Mile 249.0 Groundhog Creek Shelter
Mile 251.3 Harmon Den Mountain
Mile 251.4 Hawk’s Roost
Mile 251.9 Brown Gap/USFS-148A
Mile 254.6 Max Patch Road/SR-1182
Mile 255.4 Max Patch Summit
Mile 257.3 Roaring Fork Shelter
Mile 257.6 Footbridge
Mile 260.6 Campsite
Mile 260.8 Lemon Gap/SR-1182/TN-107/USFS-3505
Mile 262.1 Walnut Mountain Shelter
Mile 262.9 Kale Gap
Mile 263.6 Catpen Gap
Mile 263.8 Brooks
Mile 264.5 Bluff Mountain
Mile 268.1 Vista
MIle 268.6 Garenflo Gap
Mile 270.4 Lamb Knob
Mile 270.7 Little bottom Branch Gap
Mile 272.0 Deer Park Mountain Shelter/Graggp Gap
Mile 274.9 NC-209
Mile 275.2 US-25/US-70/NC-209
Mile 276.1 Bank of French Broad River
Mile 276.6 Lovers Leap Rock
Mile 278.5 Pump Gap
Mile 280.1 Campsite
Mile 281.1 Tanyard Gap/US-25/US-70
Mile 283.5 Campsite
Mile 284.3 USFS-3514
Mile 284.5 Hurricane Gap/USFS-467
Mile 286.2 Spring Mountain Shelter
Mile 287.9 Deep Gap
Mile 289.9 Allen Gap/NC-208/TN-70
Mile 291.5 Log Cabin Drive
Mile 294.8 Little Laurel Shelter
Mile 296.6 Bald Mountain Road
Mile 298.4 White Rock Cliffs
Mile 298.6 Blackstack Cliffs
Mile 299.6 Big Firescald Knob
Mile 302.1 Jerry Cabin Shelter
Mile 303.7 Dirt Road
Mile 304.0 Big Butt
Mile 308.0 Flint Gap
Mile 308.8 Flint Mountain Shelter
Mile 309.7 Campsite
Mile 311.5 Devil Fork Gap/TN-352/NC-212
Mile 313.3 Sugarloaf Gap
Mile 314.5 Frozen Knob
Mile 314.8 Lick Rock
Mile 315.4 Big Flat
Mile 316.4 Rice Gap
Mile 317.6 Hogback Ridge Shelter
Mile 318.2 High Rock
Mile 320.0 Sams Gap/US-23/I-26
Mile 322.3 Street Gap
Mile 323.7 Low Cap, Campsite
Mile 326.2 Slipper Spur
Mile 326.5 Big Bald
Mile 326.8 Big Stamp
Mile 327.7 Bald Mountain Shelter
Mile 328.1 Campsite
Mile 329.1 Little Bald
Mile 331.1 Whistling Gap
Mile 332.9 Campsite
Mile 333.4 Spivey Gap/US-19W
Mile 334.0 Oglesby Branch: plant bridge
Mile 334.9 USFS-278
Mile 335.7 Devils Creek Gap
Mile 338.3 No Business Knob Shelter
Mile 340.7 Temple Hill Gap
Mile 341.4 Temple Hill Firetower
Mile 344.6 River Road, Chestoa Bridge
Mile 344.8 CSX Railroad track
Mile 345.6 Nolichucky River Gorge view
Mile 347.7 Jones Bracnh
Mile 348.8 Curley Maple Gap Shelter
Mile 348.9 Curkey Maple Gap
Mile 352.9 Indian Grove Gap/TN-395/NC-197
Mile 354.0 USFS-230
Mile 355.2 Beauty Spot
Mile 357.0 Campsite
Mile 358.4 Unaka Mountain
Mile 360.6 Low Gap
Mile 361.7 Cherry Gap Shelter
Mile 362.1 cherry Gap
Mile 364.8 Iron Mountain Gap/TN-107/NC-226
Mile 366.0 Campsite
Mile 366.2 Weedy Gap
Mile 367.2 Large rock formation
Mile 368.9 Greasy Creek Gap
Mile 369.7 Campsite
Mie 370.8 Clyde Smith Shelter
Mile 372.0 Little Rock Knob
Mile 374.2 Hughes Gap/NC-1330
Mile 376.7 Beartown Mountain
Mile 377.2 Ash Gap
Mile 378.6 USFS Cloudland Rhododendron Garden Road
Mile 380.7 Northernmost board bridge
Mile 380.8 Carvers Gap/TN-143/NC-261
Mile 381.8 Engine Gap
Mile 382.2 Jane Bald
Mile 384.5 Low Gap, Stan Murray Shelter
Mile 384.9 Elk Hollow Ridge
Mile 385.6 Buckeye Gap
Mile 386.4 Yellow Mountain Gap
Mile 388.0 Little Hump Mountain, Campsite
Mile 389.3 Bradley Gap/Campsite
Mile 390.2 Hump Mountain
Mile 392.6 NC-TEN State Line
Mile 393.0 Crest of Rocky Spur
Mile 393.1 Overhanging rock above the Trail
Mile 394.9 Wilder Mine Hollow Group Campsite
Mile 395.0 Apple House campsite
Mile 395.6 US-19E
Tennessee
Mile 395.6 US-19E, Buck Creek
Mile 395.8 Bear Branch Road: bridge
Mile 398.5 Isaacs Cemetery
Mile 398.9 Buck Mountain Road
Mile 399.2 Cambell Hollow Road
Mile 399.8 Campsite
Mile 401.6 Elk River: souther junction
Mile 401.9 Sugar Hollow Stream Campsite
Mile 402.3 Elk River: northern junction
Mile 404.2 Mountaineer Falls Campsite
Mile 405.2 Campsite south of Slide Hollow
Mile 406.0 Walnut Mountain Road
Mile 407.7 Viewpoint: memorial bench
Mile 409.2 USFS-293
Mile 410.9 Hardcore Cascades
Mile 413.3 White Rock Mountain
Mile 414.0 Moreland Gap Shelter
Mile 415.2 Crest of White Rocks Mountain
Mile 416.1 Canute Place
Mile 416.4 Forest Road to Lacy Trapp Trail/USFS-36
Mile 418.6 Trial to Coon Den Falls
MIle 420.3 Dennis Cove/USFS-50
Mile 420.4 Campsite
Mile 420.6 Pond Mountain Wilderness Boundary
Mile 421.1 Koonford Bridge over Laurel Fork
Mile 421.5 Laurel Fork Falls, Laurel Fork Gorge
Mile 422.5 Waycaster Spring: footbridge
Mile 423.0 Hampton Blueline Trail
Mile 425.8 Pond Flats: campsite
Mile 428.4 Pond Mountain Wilderness Boundary, campsite
Mile 428.8 Shook Branch Road, gravel campsite
Mile 428.9 US-321/Shook Branch Picnic Area
Mile 430.4 Griffith Branch
Mile 431.8 Watauga Dam Water Inlet Tower
Mile 432.0 Watauga Dam
Mile 432.8 Minor Summit
Mile 434.3 Knob
MIle 438.0 Vandeventer Shelter
Mile 443.2 Turkeypen Gap
Mile 433.8 Iron Mountain Highpoint
Mile 444.8 Iron Mountain Shelter
Mile 446.1 Nick Grindstaff Monument
Mile 446.6 High Point
Mile 447.6 Top of Rise in Ridge
Mile 449.5 TN-91
Mile 451.6 Campsite
Mile 452.5 Double Springs Shelter
Mile 453 Locust Knob
Mile 455.9 Campsite
Mile 456.0 Low Gap/US-421
Mile 457.0 Minor Summit
Mile 457.9 Double Spring Gap
Mile 459.4 McQueens Knob
Mile 459.4 McQueens Knob Shelter
Mile 459.7 McQueens Gap/USFS-69
Mile 460.8 Abingdon Gap Shelter
Mile 466.2 Bakcbond Rock Trail
Mile 467.3 TN/VA State Line
*Source:
Appalachian Trail Thru-Hikers’ Companion 2025
Appalachian Trail Data Book 2024
Best of Appalachian Trail Overnight Hikers, 3rd Edition
Appalachian Trail Guide:
North Carolina - Georgia