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Jun.28.2021
Looking for that next adventure? If you live on the U.S. east coast, you may not have to look much farther than right in your own backyard.
There is a hiking trail that travels through 16 states, beginning at the Big Cypress National Preserve in Ochopee, Florida, ending some 5,400-miles away in Cape Gaspe’, Canada. It’s a trail that isn’t a trail but rather, a combination of seven east coast long-distance hiking trails that together form the Eastern Continental Trail or ECT.
Only a few hearty souls have made the entire trek on what the Sierra Club calls “a beast of a hike,” but you don’t have to upend your life for a year to experience the beauty and wonder of the trail. Instead, take a day or overnight hike on one of the many trails that make up the ECT – the Florida Trail, Conecuh Trail in Alabama’s Conecuh National Forest, Alabama and Georgia’s Pinhoti Trail, Benton MacKaye Trail in Georgia, the iconic Appalachian Trail (A.T.), an
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Southwest Virginiaâs Mount Rogers High Country offers a unique and one of the most spectacular landscapes in our region. Even though it sits in the heart of the Southern Appalachian Mountains, the experience is more similar to that of a western backdrop, such as Wyoming or Montana.
It is adorned with rugged rocky summits, expansive grass-covered meadows, magnificent fir and spruce forests, beautiful tumbling streams, and perhaps most distinctively â herds of wild ponies.
Centrally located in the vast Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, the High Country has more than 25,000 acres of the loftiest elevation in the state. At its southern border is also the Grayson Highlands State Park.