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Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States Guide Book

by Glen Scherer & Don Hopey (Stackpole Books)
Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States

372pp/photos/maps
ISBN: 0811726665

This AT guide is part of a 5-book series covering all the segments of the Appalachian Trail. This volume covers the 41 segments through Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York. Each trail description includes topo maps, elevation profiles, endpoint access, mile-by-mile route description, and natural & historical features.

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Trails from the "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States" Guide Book
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... Preview: On this 10-mile rock hop along the Blue Mountain ridge, history-minded hikers walk a path blazed by Native Americans, interpreters, missionaries, and soldiers. The focal point is Pilger Ruh (Pilgrim' ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Marstown, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 10.4 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: This hike from Bake Oven Knob to Lehigh Gap is one of the more scenic in the state, although the scenery varies considerably - from hawks floating on mountain updrafts to the stark and stunted landsca ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Lehighton, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 9.5 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: This overnight trip has it all: a great diversity of Hudson Highlands landscape, including mountain vistas, lake shore, open fields, swamps, hemlock forests, and hardwood ridges. Natural history feat ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Arden, NY - Hiking - Trail Length: 12.7 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: The less-traveled western section of Bear Mount - Harriman State Park offers an ideal introduction to the history, flora, and fauna of the Hudson Highlands. The land here comes alive with signs of th ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Arden, NY - Hiking - Trail Length: 5.7 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: A great river offers the focus for this walk. Powerful mountain-building forces first molded the stark relief of this Hudson River gorge, then glacial action carved a 15-mile-long fjord here. Human ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Fort Montgomery, NY - Hiking - Trail Length: 6.7 miles
... Preview: Thru-hikers know Pennsylvania by the name Rocksylvania. Before too long, day-trippers on this 15-mile hike along the Blue Mountain ridge discover why. Truth be told, there are some early stretches o ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Strausstown, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 15.3 miles
... Preview: North of picturesque Boiling Springs, the AT traverses the Cumberland Valley in what can only be described as a beautiful English country walk - along hedgerows, stone walls, and farm fields - with a ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Boiling Springs, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 11.3 miles
... Preview: Caledonia was the name given to ancient Scotland by invading Romans, but hikers don't need to be Bravehearts to enjoy the first leg of the AT's ridge top route between Caledonia and Pine Grove Furnace ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Chambersburg, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 11.2 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: The Kittatinny Ridge stretches northeast from the Delaware Water Gap for 43 miles to High Point, New Jersey, and is topped the entire way by the Appalachian Trail. When you look down from this precip ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Jacksonburg, NJ - Hiking - Trail Length: 7.1 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: This rollercoaster hike rides up and down the northern end of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which the AT has been following since Georgia, then smoothes out with some field hiking through the agrarian Cum ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Mount Holly Springs, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 8.3 miles
... Preview: This is a walk on the wilderness side. That does not mean that man's hand is not visible along he almost 16 miles of trail beginning at PA 325, only that for the most part it has fallen gently and lo ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Duncannon, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 15.9 miles
... Preview: Although the AT climbs 750 vertical feet up the stern visage of Peters Mountain and follows its rocky spine for much of this 7.3-mile hike, it is the long, wide Susquehanna River that dominates. AT 4 ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Duncannon, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 7.3 miles
... Preview: The AT covers relatively easy terrain on this 9.5-mile hike as it provides sweeping vistas of gently rolling farmlands, offers a walk through New York's second largest freshwater wetland, the Great Sw ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Pawling, NY - Hiking - Trail Length: 9.5 miles
... Preview: Cove Mountain is where Rocksylvania really begins. It is where hikers start to complain about seeing the Keystone State three feet at a time. Because of the rocks, they have to focus on their two fe ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Duncannon, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 8.7 miles
... Preview: The 9.8-mile stretch of Appalachian Trail leading from Crampton Gap to Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, is one of the most popular and rewarding AT day hikes in this region, with good reason. It feature ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Burkittsville, MD - Hiking - Trail Length: 10.2 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: On a warm, sunny Sunday in 1862 a force of 9000 Rebels used the ramparts of South Mountain as a natural fort from which to stage a delaying action against 30,000 Yankee soldiers. Although they lost t ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Burkittsville, MD - Hiking - Trail Length: 12.3 miles (About Top Trails)
... Preview: Clarence Fahnestock State Park straddles rugged, boulder strewn hills where highbush blueberry and mountain laurel compete in thin, acidic soils atop glacier-scraped bedrock. This 10.4-mile hike cuts ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
McKeel Corners, NY - Hiking - Trail Length: 10.4 miles
... Preview: The footing on this 7.2-mile section of Kittatinny Mountain is sharp and jagged and rough, like much of the rest of the AT through northern Pennsylvania. But how can you not like a hike that passes L ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Stroudsburg, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 7 miles
... Preview: On the hump of Piney Mountain, hikers will pass the AT's nominal midpoint. It is marked with sign and draped with the hopes of all the end-to-enders who started the hike of 2150-plus miles in Georgia ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Pine Grove Furnace, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 11 miles
... Preview: Hawks and rocks. Hikers have plenty of opportunities to look up for one and down for the other on this 13.3-mile stroll up and along the Blue Mountain ridge. The AT skirts the side of Hawk Mountain ... From the guidebook "Exploring the Appalachian Trail: Hikes in the Mid-Atlantic States"
Eckville, PA - Hiking - Trail Length: 13.5 miles (About Top Trails)

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