East to west - Appalachian Trail

imported
#1

hey
im in kind of a bind in 2004 i’ll be starting the A.T and thru hiking it but my delima comes afterwards im looking for a route to take me from the A.T to the C.D.T im sure someone out there has accomplished this or knows of someone who has this is the biggest gap in my adventure overall ill be doing the at the cdt and the pct so this info is extremly important cause i want to backpack my way across america so if you can help i can start to make this dream reality i thank you very much happy hiking

lifetimehiker

#2

The American Discovery Trail. It starts in Delaware I believe and goes to California.

Lone Wolf

#3

The ADT has an official website:
www.discoverytrail.org

It’s a terrific trail in its own right, and would probably be the best east-west trail, even if it’s further north or south than you would prefer.

Any other route would either find you hitching along lots of interstates or constantly adjusting north/south to find unconnected state/national parks/forests.

Good luck!
–TR

Teddy Roosevelt

#4

You may want to check out Sheltowee’s journal. He did something similar. http://www.trailjournals.com/sheltowee/

Leif

#5

i don’t know for sure, but I believe that the northcountrytrail.org connects to the AT in VT or NY.

moose

#6

backpacker mag had an article on a sea to sea trail in progress in Feb issue. also I think the E-Mail for it was ctoc.com not sure about that address but I’ll look it up .There was about 50 miles between the AT & a trail in NY. than 550 miles in N.D. that wasn"t connected. Happy hiking

cowboy

#7

The north country trail terminates in the adirondacks so does not quite make it to the AT. It also terminates in North Dakota so it does not quite make it to the CDT. The trail would be very hard to thru-hike due to its northern latitude, which would guarantee tough winter conditions. The American Discovery Trail is a route that does link the AT, the CDT and the PCT, but it links all of them right in the middle just about. Plus, the majority of this path is on roads. You may just opt to make your own route or consider the Trans-Canadian Trail as a link to the northern termini: http://www.tctrail.ca/

sweeper