Hike the Hill® is a joint effort between American Hiking Society and Partnership for the National Trails System to bring together the trails community to advance shared trail priorities with congressional and federal agency leaders, including: trails funding, public lands management and conservation, and reauthorizing the National Parks and Public Lands Legacy Restoration Fund. […]
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Author: Kate Lemon
Tara Atkinson: NCNST Long Distance Hiker
Tara Atkinson Central patch + Ohio, Pennsylvania, New York, Vermont, 1000 miles and 2000 miles On April 14, 2025, I flew from Portland, Oregon to Grand Rapids, Michigan. Though I had done some research on the NCT, I didn’t yet know about the wonderful trail angel networks or the Chapter coordinators who do so much […]
Jill Wilson: NCNST Long Distance Hiker
Jill Wilson Central patch + Vermont NCT End-to-End Essay, Part I: The Beginning and Vermont I began hiking the North Country Trail sort of by accident! It was really the Finger Lakes Trail (FLT) that drew me in and got me to do my first long distance section hiking of a trail. I completed that […]
