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Al PA LAC HI 



TRAIL 



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l n p, : the hiker traverses die old coal and 



through the Si. Anthonys Wilderness where 

 ,1 grade, Foundations of houses, and coal 



in reminders thai Inn- families lived and 



flouri hed. Wesl of the Susquehanna he goes 



d Vlmii Alio State Forest, site of one of the first 



j ore h; schools in the country. 



\i ill, Potomac Rivoi !»• parallels the old (Chesapeake 



in,, Canal, an early transportation route hetween 



Cumberland, Md., mid Alexandria, Va, Hi- passes within 



r ht of I!,,, i" i Ferrj in West Virginia whore abolitionist 



lohn Brov H taged Ids pre-Civil \\ ai i aid. 



In I,. Shenandoah (National Park the Trail n isscrosscs 



,i ili \t ii penetrates the George 



National Forest in Virginia it becomes more 



mi ol magnificent 1,000-foot peaks. 



h the Jefferson National F oresl it i uns b 



ich descriptive names 



Ileal Ida; s Tooth, and Di-mal Peak. 



Throughout the southern Appalachians the hiker sees 

 the naked trunks of the once great American chestnut trees 

 which succumbed to blight. In this country, too, are the 

 balds — rolling mountains with grassy tops, green and rest- 

 ful to a footweary traveler. 



Thus the trail winds over Roan Mountain on the bound- 

 ary between the Pisgah National Forest in North Carolina 

 and the Cherokee National Forest in Tennessee, where 

 rhododendrons grow in great profusion. Through the 

 Great Smoky Mountain National Park and into the Nan- 

 tahala National Forest the Trail continues, ending finally 

 on Springer Mountain in the Chattahoochee National 

 Forest, mar Mt. Oglethorpe. 



Marking, Maintenance, and Protection 



The hiker can identify the Appalachian Trail by the 

 following symbol, usually painted in black on a diamond 

 sliapi-d piece of galvanized iron which is attached to a 



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APPALACHIAN i»f a 



D.rm R 0CK GAP 

 BIG SPRING GAP t 

 BEECH GAP \Z 



STA ian 



N.C.-GA 





LEGEND 



APPALACHIAN TRAIL 

 ■I NATIONAL FORESTS 

 I I NATIONAL PARKS 



