My new book tells a story of the Appalachian Trail that is all but forgotten by hikers, but not by the residents of the southwestern Virginia counties that the trail used to cross. Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail is both a history of the AT and a story of the power of memory in rural communities traversed by the trail.
For more than two decades, hikers on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia walked through some of the most beautiful landscapes of the southern Appalachian Mountains. But in 1952, the Appalachian Trail Conference moved the trail more than 50 miles to the west. That change meant abandoning 300 miles of the trail’s original route and was the single largest re-routing of the AT in the trail’s long history.
Order your copy today from Arcadia Publishing or you can support your favorite independent bookstore by buying the book directly from them. If you don’t have a local store, I recommend:
- Blacksburg Books in Blacksburg
- New Dominion Bookshop in Charlottesville
- Chapters Bookshop in Galax
If you want a signed copy, use this link to check out and I’ll mail you one.
And, of course, there’s always Amazon or Barnes and Noble.
