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The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) is a volunteer organization that works to maintain hiking trails in the Washington, D.C. area of the United States. PATC was founded in 1927 to protect and develop the local section of the then new Appalachian Trail .
The area's first climbing guide, Rock Climbs Near Washington, was written by Don Hubbard and published in the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) Bulletin in July 1943. In 1942, Herb and Jan Conn began climbing at Carderock.
The trail, which is maintained by the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, starts at Gambrill State Park, which also contains several shorter hiking and mountain biking trails as well as picnic pavilions, and continues north through the Frederick Municipal Forest to Cunningham Falls State Park and Catoctin Mountain Park. Both parks contain many ...
Particularly after the 1960s, park operations broadened from nature-focused to include social history. The Potomac Appalachian Trail Club had restored some cabins beginning in the 1940s and made them available to overnight hikers. Some displaced residents (and their descendants) created the Children of the Shenandoah to lobby for more balanced ...
Paul Bradt mid-climb. Paul Jay Bradt (1904–1978) has been called the father of rock climbing in the Washington, D.C., area. [1] He was instrumental in developing interest in the sport, was a founding member and first chair of the rock climbing branch of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, and pioneered historic climbs and cave explorations in the 1930s and 1940s.
The Corbin Cabin is a log structure built by George T. Corbin in 1909 in the Nicholson Hollow area of what is now Shenandoah National Park. [3] Corbin was forced to vacate the land on which the cabin sits in 1938, when the land was added to Shenandoah National Park. [4]
A prominent member of the Potomac Appalachian Trail Club (PATC) in the Washington D.C. area from its inception, he was also a co-founder of The Wilderness Society. Because of his ties to the PATC, Anderson was well acquainted with Benton MacKaye, a forester who was the first to propose the Appalachian Trail.
The trail is managed by the National Park Service and is one of three National Trails that are official NPS units. [2] Unlike many long-distance hiking trails such as the Appalachian Trail, the Potomac Heritage Trail is an informal route with numerous side trails and alternatives, some in parallel on each side of the river. Currently, many of ...