THE APPALACHIAN TRAIL

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• About 1,000 people get the right
• to call them selves end-to-enders

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• They do so by hiking the Entire length of the Appalachian
• Trail, a wilderness foot path that is 2,158 miles and (3,472 clomiters) long.

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• The trail stretches from Spriger mountain in Georgia to
• Mount Katahdin in Maine.

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• Each year more than 3 million people hike
• at least partial of the trail.

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• It follows the ranges that make up
• the Appalachian mountains.

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• The Appalachian trail was the idea of
• a Massachusetts forester MacKaye:-)

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• The trail was built in 1922 to 1937.

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• The trail crosses 14 states.

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• The national park serves owns a narrow corridor of
• land along much of the trails.

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• The trail crosses through several
• national parks.