Throughout the years hikers have enjoyed traversing the entire trail from Georgia to Maine, or just parts of it.
"In the A.T.’s early years, just a handful of people took advantage of it (by 1969, only 61 people had hiked every mile). 'The end of World War II was putting pressure on the trail,' said Brian King, spokesman for The Appalachian Trail Conservancy. 'New roads were being built, and second homes, so the trail was running through private property.' But in the 1960s people took notice; it took volunteers nearly four years of working with local landowners, buying their property or finding ways around it, to ensure that the public would always have access to a continuous trail. 'This was easily the most complex public land acquisition land process ever,' said King."Read the full story: 40 years hiking the Appalachian Trail
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