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Every year, about 1,000 hikers earn the right to call themselves
"end-to-enders."
They do so by hiking the entire length of the
Appalachian Trail,
a wilderness footpath that is 2,158 miles (3,472 kilometers) long. The trail stretches from
Springer Mountain
in
Georgia to
Mount Katahdin
in
Maine.
It follows the ranges that make up the Appalachian Mountains, including the Great Smoky Mountains and the Blue Ridge Mountains in the South, the
Catskills in
New York, and the White Mountains and the Green Mountains in New England. Its highest elevation is 6,643 feet (2,026 meters), on Clingmans Dome
in the
Smokies.
Each year, more than 3 million people hike at least part of the
trail, which is marked by white blazes and steel plates with the "A"
symbol. Campsites and three-wall shelters are available to hikers
along the way.
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Most "end-to-enders"
need at least four months to complete the hike. So nearly all begin in Georgia, where good weather comes earlier than in
Maine.
The Appalachian Trail was the idea of a
Massachusetts
forester, Benton
MacKaye.
Built between 1922 and 1937, it became part of the national-park system in 1968.
The trail crosses 14 states and passes through several national parks and forests. The
National Park Service
owns a narrow corridor of land along much of the trails length.
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