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Hiking the Benton MacKaye Trail

By Tim Homan
Illustrated by Vicky Holifield

5-1/2 x 7-1/2 inches; 272 pages
46 black-and-white illustrations; 8 black-and-white photographs, 12 maps
Nature / Sports

$15.95 trade paper / ISBN: 1-56145-311-0

A detailed, illustrated guidebook for novice and experienced hikers to hiking the scenic, primitive trail that runs along the western ridges of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

VETERAN HIKER AND NATURE WRITER Tim Homan guides fellow hikers and backpackers along the scenic, primitive Benton MacKaye Trail, currently a 90-mile trail that extends from Springer Mountain in Georgia into southern Tennessee.

The guidebook is divided into 12 trail sections, each including a map, an elevation profile, and easy-to-use information on length, difficulty, access, and scenic features. Homan describes the surrounding habitat, providing comments on the area's flora and fauna.

Also included is an essay on the origins and history of the trail and the Benton MacKaye Trail Association, as well as a timetable for the development of the remainder of the proposed trail, information about the geology of the area, and a brief biography of founder Benton MacKaye.

Named in honor of Benton MacKaye, who inspired the creation of the Appalachian Trail, the Benton MacKaye Trail is a trail in progress that will eventually cover more than 270 miles and extend through Tennessee into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina to rejoin the Appalachian Trail.

Click here to read an interview with Tim Homan.


Tim HomanTIM HOMAN, experienced hiker and outdoor writer, is the author of The Hiking Trails of North Georgia, Hiking Trails of the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock & Citico Creek Wildernesses, Hiking Trails of the Cohutta & Big Frog Wildernesses, Hiking Trails of the Southern Nantahala Wilderness, the Ellicott Rock Wilderness, and the Chattooga National Wild and Scenic River, and Hiking the Benton MacKaye Trail, and the editor of A Yearning Toward Wildness: Environmental Quotations from the Writings of Henry David Thoreau. He lives with his wife in Colbert, Georgia.

VICKY HOLIFIELD's botanical illustrations have appeared in Tipularia, The Panola Mountain Wildflower Guide, Georgia's Protected Plants, Hiking Trails of the Cohutta and Big Frog Wildernesses, and Hiking Trails of the Southern Nantahala Wildernerss, the Ellicott Rock Wilderness, and the Chattooga National Wild and Scenic River. A graduate of Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, she also holds an MAT from Yale University.

 

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