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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. It has expanded its mission to oversee over 1,050 miles (1,690 km) of trails, 47 ...
Designated CP. October 15, 1966. Jefferson Rock is a rock formation on the Appalachian Trail in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia. It consists of several large masses of Harpers shale, [3] piled one upon the other, that overlook the Shenandoah River just prior to its confluence with the Potomac River.
Potomac Highlands. Coordinates: 38°52′N 79°22′W. The Potomac Highlands of West Virginia (or just the Potomac Highlands) (listen ⓘ) centers on five West Virginian counties (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton) in the upper Potomac River watershed in the western portion of the state's Eastern Panhandle, bordering Maryland and ...
Catoctin Mountain traverses Frederick County, Maryland and extends into northern Loudoun County, Virginia.It rises to its greatest elevation of 1,900 feet (580 m) above sea level just southwest of Cunningham Falls State Park [3] and is transected by gaps at Braddock Heights (Fairview Pass), Point of Rocks on the Potomac River and Clarke's Gap west of Leesburg, as well as several other unnamed ...
The Appalachian Trail, also called the A.T., is a hiking trail in the Eastern United States, extending almost 2,200 miles (3,540 km) between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and passing through 14 states. [2] The Appalachian Trail Conservancy claims the Appalachian Trail to be the world's longest hiking-only trail. [3]
The International Appalachian Trail (IAT; French: Sentier international des Appalaches, SIA) was originally a hiking trail which ran from Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument, in Maine, through New Brunswick, to the Gaspé Peninsula of Quebec, after which it followed a ferry route to Newfoundland, and then continued to the northern-easternmost point of the Appalachian Mountains at Belle ...
Panoramic view of the Potomac River taken from Weverton Cliffs looking west/southwest. Edward B. Garvey (November 13, 1914 [1] in Farmington, Minnesota [2] – September 20, 1999, at Arlington Hospital in Virginia [3] of congestive heart failure) [4] thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in 1970 and in 1971 published a book about his adventure, Appalachian Hiker, that raised awareness of thru-hiking.
Maryland State Police aviation and area firefighters and EMS helped a woman who fell over 50 feet from a cliff face in southern Washington County.