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Along the Appalachian Trail: West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania

By: Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy

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Along the Appalachian Trail: West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania

By: Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Unlike counterparts on other sections of the 2,180-plus-mile Appalachian Trail who could locate the pathway within national parks and forests, builders of the 270 miles of trail detailed in Along the Appalachian Trail: West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania did not have vast tracts of federal lands on which to construct the footpath. Yet they succeeded in creating a trail within many of the states' scenic areas. Hundreds of vintage photographs--provided by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, National Park Service, state archives, and local trail-maintaining clubs--present an illustrated narrative of the Herculean work and dedication it took for volunteers to plan, build, and continue to maintain the trail in these states. Included are the glimpses of American history the trail passes by, the pathway's early (and later) supporters and hikers, and original locations that have been rerouted off of today's trail.

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Arcadia Publishing

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1467123269

ISBN 13

9781467123266

Along the Appalachian Trail:

Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire

By: Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy

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Along the Appalachian Trail:

Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire

By: Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy

It was in the early 1900s atop a summit in Vermont that Benton MacKaye envisioned a hiking path along the crest of the Appalachians, beginning in the New England states and extending to those in the South. Along the Appalachian Trail: Massachusetts, Vermont, and New Hampshire chronicles the history of the world-famous route in those states, from New England's hiking and trail-building culture that predated and paved the way for the trail to those who toiled to create it and those who have continued to hike and protect it. Today's trail is vastly different from its earlier days. This collection of vintage photographs and accompanying text includes its original course and some of the many reroutes it has experienced. It all comes together to illuminate just what an amazing volunteer achievement the existence of the trail is.

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1467116068

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Along the Appalachian Trail: New Jersey, New York and Connecticut

By: Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy

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Along the Appalachian Trail: New Jersey, New York and Connecticut

By: Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy

200 images from the archives of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the National Park Service that tell the history of the Appalachian Trail in NY, NJ and CT. Crossing through 14 states from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail enters New Jersey through the Delaware Water Gap, crosses New York's Hudson River, and rises over Connecticut's Lion's Head. The area is considered by some to be the pathways birthplace, for in 1923, just two years after Benton MacKaye originally proposed the trail, the first few miles specifically constructed for the Appalachian Trail were built by volunteers in New York's Harriman and Bear Mountain State Parks. These photographs and the corresponding narrative present a historical perspective on what it took to create the trail, including the thousands of volunteers and the arduous tasks they performed, those who lived along the trail before and during its creation, the many people who have enjoyed the trail through the years, and the original routes that are no longer part of the present-day Appalachian Trail.

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