Trail Towns - Appalachian Trail

imported
#1

How many towns does the App trail go directly through? I was asked this question this past weekend and couldn’t come up with a definite answer.

HotSprings, Damascus, HarpersFerry, Port Clinton, Delaware Water Gap, Boiling Springs, Dalton, Cheshire, Bear Mountain

What towns am I missing?

Z.

edited 09/07/04
<!-- How many towns does the App trail go directly through? I was asked this question this past weekend and couldn’t come up with a definite answer.

HotSprings, Damascus, HarpersFerry, Port Clinton, Delaware Water Gap, Boiling Springs, Dalton, Cheshire

What towns am I missing?

Z. -->

ZipDrive

#2

Duncannon, Hanover.

wolf

#3

How could you forget about Hanover? And while you are at it, does West Hartford count? And does Glencliff count?

But, I don’t think that Bear Mountain is a town, just a state park with a PO for some obscure reason.

Peaks

#4

AT no longer goes directly through Glenciff.

Peaks

#5

North Adams, MA

Blue Jay

#6

How about Pearisburg, VA (goes through as much as it does in DWG)

Navigator

#7

AT goes directly through a building at Neels Gap but I guess a one-building “town” doesn’t count? :slight_smile:

RockyTrail

#8

How about Daleville VA and Caratunk ME? And what about Wesser NC? Is that really a town? I can’t remember since I only resupplied at NOC.

Peace
:cheers

boorah

#9

North Adams: The trail crosses in the Blackinton section of this city. Downtown, with the PO is a couple miles east of the trail, so I’d say that it doesn’t count. Although, there is a good commercial strip near the trail crossing.

Caratunk: the village and post office is a short ways off the AT. It’s close, but not on the AT.

Wesser: This place doesn’t even have a PO. The only thing in this area is NOC.

Neels Gap: Not a town in my opinion.

Pearisburg: The trail skirts the town.

Daleville: The town is off the AT. The trail crosses near an interstate highway interchange.

Peaks

#10

I heard that the trail is being re-routed away from towns. I also heard that some towns are accessable on blue blazes that were once the A.T. Is the ATC making a consious effort to avoid towns? Doesn’t seem to make much sense to do this as most, if not all hikers, have to go to town for something. I’m wonder if this is the way the ATC are heading. Just imagine if the trail didn’t pass through Hot Springs…unfathomable??

Cheers

Cheers

#11

I guess it depends on what you mean by “town” (wow, that sounds like something Bill Clinton would say).

Groseclose is sort-of a town. There’s a motel, restaurant, gas station, and Dairy Queen. Even the Fontana Dam area (not the village, but the dam itself) has a little fishing store. That’s not a town, but it’s more than you can say for Caratunk.

TANK

#12

How about Wintergreen Va., the trail was relocated to go aroung the town/resort but some houses are still a stones throw away

boagus

#13

Frankly, as far as I am concerned, there is nothing wrong with routing the AT directly down Main Street occassionally.

Like Cheers posted, imagine if the AT didn’t go through Hot Springs. Or Hanover. I’d like to see the AT routed through Gorham and Monson, just to mention two good trail towns.

Peaks

#14

The AT USED to go thru Gorham and Monson.

wolf