• Running 2000 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail is the longest marked trail in the U.S.
  • More than a quarter of those miles are in Virginia
  • First proposed in 1921, the Appalachian Trail was completed in 1937, largely by volunteers
  • Every year about 2000 people set out to hike the entire Appalachian Trial, but only 1 in 4 completes it
  • Most hikers walk the trail south to north starting in Georgia in March and ending in Maine in September
  • The number one discarded item on the Appalachian Trail? Books
  • The half-way point of the trail is in historic Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia