Appalachian Trail Region | Hiking the AT in NY and NJ
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| Description | The Appalachian National Scenic Trail from Delaware Water Gap to Connecticut |
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| Buy a Map | Appalachian Trail Guide to New York-New Jersey |
| Buy a Book | Appalachian Trail Guide to New York-New Jersey |
General Info
The Appalachian Trail, known by hikers as the AT, runs from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine, a distance of about 2,160 miles. In the New York-New Jersey region, it runs more than 160 miles, from the Delaware Water Gap to Connecticut. The trail is uniformly marked with a 2" x 6" white-painted, vertical blaze.
The first section of the AT was built by volunteers of the NY-NJ Trail Conference in 1922-23, from the Bear Mountain Bridge to the Ramapo River south of Arden in Harriman-Bear Mountain State Parks.
The AT was designated a National Scenic Trail by Congress in 1968. The AT and a protective corridor are managed cooperatively by the National Park Service and the nonprofit Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC). The ATC delegates maintenance responsibilities to member trail clubs, including the NY-NJ Trail Conference, along the length of the trail.
The Appalachian Trail Guide to New York-New Jersey and similar guides for other states describe the trail in great detail, with comments about trail features every few tenths of a mile. These guides are revised every three to five years. The Appalachian Trail Data Book, published by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, is revised yearly and covers the whole trail in fewer than 100 pages.
Bear Mountain Trails Project
The AT on Bear Mountain is the focal point of a multi-year, multi-agency trail building and rehabilitation project being led by the Trail Conference.
Learn more about the AT
- Appalachian Trail Conservancy
- National Park Service
- Interactive Map of the AT (another one)
- Find Reports on Water availability Summer 2011
- Shuttles
- Local Management Committees have more information about their sections
- Appalachian Trail Related Links
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site for 3/31 RPH trailcrew is at RPH shelter, not Fahnstocke !
see subject above ! This Saturday we will be working on projects around the RPH Shelter, NOT at Fahnstocke ! Although we already opened the shelter earlier than normal this year, still is work to do around shelter, including painting inside if weather is OK, as well as pulling bridge steps out of stream with griphoist, and (if time) replacing rocks in stonewall on A.T. North of shelter (both due to vandalism), as well as work on memorial garden, and some puncheon repairs.
Our July 6th to 9th (or is it July 13th-15th? - will check & get back to you) work weekend will MEET at RPH shelter, projects will take place at Fahnstocke (.2 miles North of Route 301) in conjuction with Jolly Rovers, step repair on Stormville Mountain Road & I-84, and 9 checkdams halfway between Shenandoah Mt and Lake Canopus, among other projects (meet, project assignment, meals and tent sleeping will be at RPH Shelter).
All Saturday activities (every Saturday thru September weather permitting) will start at 9 a.m. at Northbound A.T. trailhead on Route 301 in Fahnstocke, and work on stair rebuild project .2 miles North on A.T.
== Dave Dvorsky / VP, RPH Cabin Volunteers (member club)
AT Relocated on West Mountain in Harriman State Park
Click here to find details about this new relocation.