Experience sleeping under the stars on the Appalachian Trail with this guide.
Hikers can traverse Virginia's Southern Shenandoah, enjoy North Carolina's Mount Cammerer Loop, and summit Vermont's Killington Peak with Best Hikes of the Appalachian Trail: Overnight Hikes by Victoria and Frank Logue and
Leonard M. Adkins,the most comprehensive and useful guide to the best Appalachian Trail overnight hikes.
This new edition includes new overnight hikes, as well as updated trail information. Each hike profile contains driving directions to the trailhead; a preview of the flora, fauna, and history hikers will encounter on the trail; and hike difficulty ratings.
By:
Leonard M. Adkins,
Victoria Logue,
Frank Logue
Imprint: Menasha Ridge Press Inc.
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: 3rd Revised edition
Dimensions:
Height: 152mm,
Width: 228mm,
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781634041478
ISBN 10: 163404147X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 21 August 2018
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Acknowledgments Introduction Maine MAINE TRAIL TABLE Rainbow Lake Nahmakanta Lake to Abol Bridge Cooper Pond to Nahmakanta Stream Barren–Chairback Range Little Wilson and Big Wilson Falls Moxie Bald, Bald Mountain, and Horseshoe Canyon Bigelow Range Loop Saddleback Range Hike of the Five Ponds Bemis Range Loop The Baldpates Mahoosuc Range New Hampshire NEW HAMPSHIRE TRAIL TABLE Gentian Pond The Northern Presidential Range Zealand Falls, Ethan Pond, and Webster Cliffs Franconia Ridge and Lonesome Lake Western New Hampshire Vermont VERMONT TRAIL TABLE Eastern Vermont Pico Peak Killington Peak Little Rock Pond to Clarendon Gorge Stratton Mountain and Lye Brook Wilderness Loop Massachusetts MASSACHUSETTS TRAIL TABLE Mount Greylock Loop Finerty Pond to Benedict Pond Jug End, Mount Everett, and Sages Ravine Connecticut CONNECTICUT TRAIL TABLE Housatonic River to Ten Mile Hill New York NEW YORK TRAIL TABLE Shenandoah Mountain to Bear Mountain Inn Harriman State Park New Jersey NEW JERSEY TRAIL TABLE Pochuck Crossing and Wallkill Valley Kittatinny Mountains Delaware Water Gap and Kittatinny Mountains Pennsylvania PENNSYLVANIA TRAIL TABLE Wind Gap to Delaware Water Gap Blue Mountain The Pinnacles and Pulpit Rock Hawk Rock and the Cumberland Valley South Mountain Maryland MARYLAND TRAIL TABLE Annapolis Rock to Pen Mar Park West Virginia and Virginia WEST VIRGINIA AND VIRGINIA TRAIL TABLE South and North Marshall Loop Stony Man and Big Meadows Southern Shenandoah Mill Creek and Humpback Mountain Three Ridges Loop Bald Knob to The Priest Thunder Hill to Jennings Creek Dragons Tooth, McAfee Knob, and Tinker Cliffs Angels Rest and Dismal Creek Falls Virginia Highlands Traverse Fairwood Valley and Mount Rogers Loop Tennessee and North Carolina TENNESSEE AND NORTH CAROLINA TRAIL TABLE Iron Mountain Traverse Grassy Ridge and The Humps Traverse Bald Mountains State Line Traverse Max Patch and Hot Springs Mount Cammerer Loop Mount Collins and Clingmans Dome Russell Field, Spence Field, and Rocky Top Loop Northern Nantahala Traverse Wayah Bald and Siler Bald Standing Indian Loop Georgia GEORGIA TRAIL TABLE Tray Mountain Wilderness Tesnatee Gap to Woody Gap Blood Mountain Loop Woody Gap and Springer Mountain Springer Mountain and Three Forks Loop Appendix: Trail-Maintenance Clubs Index About the Authors About the Appalachian Trail Conservancy
Leonard M. Adkins has been intimately involved with the Appalachian Trail for several decades. He has hiked its full length five times and lacks just a few hundred miles to complete it for a sixth. He has maintained a section of the Trail near McAfee Knob and was a ridgerunner for the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. He has also served as an A.T. Natural Heritage Site Monitor, aiding the conservancy and the National Park Service in overseeing the welfare of rare and endangered plants. In addition, he has served on the boards of directors of the Roanoke Appalachian Trail Club and the Old Dominion Appalachian Trail Club. Among other long-distance trails Leonard has completed are the Continental Divide Trail from Canada to Mexico, the Pacific Northwest Trail from Glacier National Park to the Pacific Ocean, and the Pyrenees High Route along the border of France and Spain. In all, he has walked more than 20,000 miles exploring the backcountry areas of the United States, Canada, Europe, New Zealand, and the Caribbean. Leonard is the author of 20 books on travel and the outdoors. His Wildflowers of the Appalachian Trail was presented the National Outdoor Book Award, while The Appalachian Trail: A Visitor's Companion received the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Award. He has also written more than 200 articles for magazines such as Blue Ridge Country, Backpacker, Islands, The Roanoker, and Blue Ridge Outdoors. Along with his thru-hiking wife, Laurie, he lives in Virginia, within easy striking distance of the A.T. You may learn more about his adventures at habitualhiker.com. Victoria and Frank Logue hiked the entire Appalachian Trail in 1988 and have returned again and again to hike its many sections on day and overnight hikes. Frank has also served on the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's Board of Managers. In addition, they have continued to hike out west and abroad, including Israel, Jordan, France, Italy, Iceland, Ireland, Scotland, and England. They live in Georgia, where Frank works as an Episcopal priest and as an assistant to the bishop of Georgia. Victoria, a writer of fiction and nonfiction, recently published her fourth novel. Currently, they love visiting and hiking with their daughter, Griffin, in Arizona.