Along Virginia's Appalachian trail
By: Leonard M. Adkins and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
Contributors: Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
Series: Images of America (Arcadia)
Publisher: Arcadia Pub.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charleston, SC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 127
ISBN-13: 9780738566306
Subjects: Trails -- Virginia -- Pictorial works; Appalachians (People) -- Pictorial works; Appalachians (People) -- History -- Pictorial works; Appalachian Trail -- History -- Pictorial works; Shenandoah National Park (Va.) -- Pictorial works; Appalachian Trail -- History, Local -- Pictorial works
Genres: Pictorial works
Description: "The Appalachian Trail was proposed by Benton MacKaye in 1921. Over a quarter of the Georgia-to-Maine pathway passes through Virginia, going across some of the state's best mountain scenery and affording access to small-town life. Now a component of the National Park Service, the trail was, and still is, primarily built, maintained, and overseen by volunteers. Selected from the archives of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the National Park Service, and local Appalachian Trail maintenance clubs, the approximately 200 photographs in Images of America: Along Virginia's Appalachian Trail provide a look at life in the mountains before and during the trails creation, how it developed, who its early champions were, the many relocations the trail has experienced, and the volunteers who have constructed and maintained it"--Back cover.
Table of contents: title: The older route in southern Virginia; title: The newer route in southern Virginia; title: Central Virginia; title: Shenandoah National Park; title: Northern Virginia.