About The Appalachian Trail . There are lots of scenic towns along the AT, but only one is located on the actual trail itself, which makes Hot Springs, North Carolina, unique.According to the ...

The Carolina Mountain Club bought 130 volunteers in November 2024 to help clear debris left by Hurricane Helene along the Appalachian Trail and the French Broad River in the town of Hot Springs.

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

The U.S. Forest Service has cleared 137 miles of trails, including over 114 miles of the Appalachian Trail. Crews have also surveyed and reopened about 240 miles of roads across the district.

The destruction from Helene is widespread across the trail’s 1,050 miles of main and side paths in Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia, including an estimated 300 miles of ...

I had seen the drone footage of Hot Springs, North Carolina—a place I called home for years and one of the few towns the 2,200-mile trail bisects via sidewalk—drowned in the brown waters of an ...