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

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