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Welcome! After 12 years, this page continues to provide one of the most easily accessed AT maps on the web: the official National Park Service strip map for the trail, scanned and split into images that can be viewed in any browser. Simply click on one of the sections to see more detail!
This page first appeared in 1998, when I built, for a friend who is a through hiker, what must have been one of the first hiking blogs on the web. You can still see it here: Fox on the Trail.
Other Online AT Maps
Interactive Map (Appalachian Trail Conservancy)
Scroll and zoom to see exactly the parts of the Trail that you want to study. Based on Google Maps, so you can swap between seeing terrain, a satellite image, or a road map.
Appalachian Trail Map (National Park Service)
Click their “view map” button to launch a JavaScript powered map viewer that, if it works on your browser, lets you pan and zoom across another version of the same brochure map shown here.
Online A.T. Maps (Kathy Bilton)
This bright orange page of links has been familiar to AT fans for 15 years, and was one of the first Internet resources about the Trail. It is still activately maintained.
Related Hiking Books
AT Data Book 2010
The bible for serious AT hikers. Provides tables of distances along the trail between landmarks, shelters, and roads.
Thru-Hikers' Companion 2010
Maps, mileages, and services along the Trail condensed from the individual Guide Books for each state to make high level planning more affordable.
Lightweight Backpacking and Camping
The books of lightweight backpacking pioneer Ray Jardine seem to be out of print, but this introduction by Ryan Jordan explains how to head into the backcountry safely and comfortably while carrying less gear.
Paper copies of this map
New Hampshire
Massachusetts
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Maryland
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
