Alabama NewsCenter — Extending the Appalachian Trail into Alabama a natural, say advocates and state conservation officials

By Alabama NewsCenter Staff

For decades, Alabama hiking enthusiasts have dreamed of seeing the venerable Appalachian Trail (AT) officially extended into the state.

Whether it will ever happen is unclear. But with more AT “thru-hikers” taking their first, or last, steps of the epic trek in the Yellowhammer State, Alabama conservation officials and long-time advocates of the idea are pumping up the “AT2AL” campaign in hope of someday making it official.

They point to legendary conservationist Benton MacKaye’s original vision of the Appalachian Trail, which included Alabama. In March 1925, the founding Appalachian Trail conference convened in Washington, D.C., where it formally adopted the original 1,700-mile-long “Main Line” trail from Cohutta Mountain, Georgia, to Mount Washington, New Hampshire and recommended extensions to Maine in the North and Alabama in the South.

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