Appalachian Trail Section Hike Planner

Use the slider to indicate your hiking style.

Appalachian trail section hike planner. A typical thru hike requires 4 6 months of continuous walking and 30 or 40 stops for resupply. If you are looking for an epic trail to hike there isn t one more worthy than the legendary appalachian trail. The best section hikes on the appalachian trail.

If you re still trying to decide whether section hiking the appalachian trail is a good idea or you re a beginner backpacker ease into it by planning a few short one or two night backpacking trips covering 10 15 miles to try it out and get used to using your camping gear before you tackle a big section hike. All sections are under 100 miles for easy day hiking weekend backpacking or a week long hiking trip. I provides a mile by mile account of all of the shelters water sources resupply points and roads crossings on the trail in a liner fashion that i find easy to digest.

Parking locations and hike highlights included. Note depending on where you wish to begin and end the are countless variations to these hikes. The appalachian trail covers almost 2200 miles passes through parts of 14 states and includes more than 90 miles of elevation change over its full course.

The appalachian trail at hike planner is designed to help you dynamically create a realistic hiking plan. Hiking the entire at in a single session takes a lot of time. Multi day hiking spans from spending an overnight on the appalachian trail a t to hiking every part of the trail through a series of multi day hikes over many years called section hiking.

Use the hiking style slider to adjust your plan to your style. That was the original intent behind the founding appalachian trail to provide outdoor recreation opportunities for people on a local and regional basis and not as a long distance trail for thru hiking. When planning an appalachian trail section hike the first thing i do is to consult a ragged 2006 copy of the at thru hikers companion that i use to keep track of all of the miles i ve hiked.

See benton mackaye s appalachian trail proposal the edward garvey shelter. Adjusting your plan lengthing or shorting is absolutely painless. The at data book is a planning tool that provides great baseline info for planning your hikes it consenses the trail data from all eleven official trail guides into one book but doesn t go into the level of detail the at guide does which makes the at guide my preferred resource of the two.