The Appalachian Trail traverses the Appalachian Mountain Range for over 2,100 miles from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. This well-maintained National Scenic Trail winds its way through fourteen eastern states (Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine) almost entirely on protected public lands. The way is marked by more than 82,000 blazes, and 2
