page_title: Bartram Trail
section_title: North Carolina
hierarchical_section_title: Bartram Trail / North Carolina
caption_attribution_description: English: The Appalachian Trail and Bartram Trail meet at Wayah Bald, North Carolina (in the Nantahala National Forest). These are markers for each.
context_page_description: The Bartram Trail follows the approximate route of 18th-century naturalist William Bartram’s southern journey from March 1773 to January 1777. Bartram explored much of the territory which is now the states of North and South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Tennessee.
  The most established section is a hiking trail that winds about 115 miles from the North Georgia mountains into North Carolina. It has been designated as a National Recreation Trail in Georgia, North Carolina, and Alabama.
  The Bartram Trail Conference, Inc., was founded in 1976 to identify and mark the route of Bartram’s southern explorations and to promote interest in developing recreational trails and botanical gardens along the route. The BTC also encourages the study, preservation and interpretation of the William Bartram heritage at both cultural and natural sites in Trail states.
  The North Carolina Bartram Trail Society was organized in 1977. The Society reached an agreement with the U.S. Forest Service to mark the general trail corridor within the Nantahala National Forest, and to blaze and build the trail, which was completed.
context_section_description: In North Carolina, the Bartram Trail meanders 78.4 miles (126.2 km) near the mountainous towns of Franklin, Highlands, Andrews, Robbinsville, and Nantahala.  It includes 5,385 feet (1,641 m) Wayah Bald, which is the highest point on the trail and where it crosses the Appalachian Trail.  There is an optional 9 miles (14 km) canoe section on the Little Tennessee River.
caption: Bartram Trail meets the Appalachian Trail on Wayah Bald, North Carolina
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