Content tagged with “Tuscarora Trail”
The Tuscarora Trail is a 250 mile alternate to the Appalachian Trail. Starting at the junction of the Appalachian Trail and the Tuscarora-Overall Run Trail in Shenandoah National Park, the trail heads northwest through Virginia across the Shenandoah Valley, then northeast as it travels through the Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians of West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, reconnecting with the Appalachian Trail in central Pennsylvania on Blue Mountain, near the Darlington Shelter and the town of Duncannon.
The Tuscarora trail was established in the 1960s as an alternate alignment of the AT when it was feared that development would cause the closure of the AT along its present route through northern Virginia, Maryland, and southern Pennsylvania. Fortunately, that closure never happened, thanks to the National Scenic Trails Act of 1968, which protected the Appalachian Trail’s right-of-way.
In 2020, I thru-hiked the Tuscarora Trail.
Tuscarora Trail, 2020
- Why the Tuscarora Trail? (8/21/2020 8:31 pm)
- Gear on the Tuscarora Trail (8/22/2020 6:00 pm)
- Day 1: Trail of the Deer (8/23/2020 9:45 pm)
- Day 2: Views and Trails Unseen and Forgotten (8/24/2020 6:33 pm)
- Day 3: Equipment Failure (8/25/2020 9:13 pm)
- Day 4: Attack of the Spiders (8/26/2020 1:45 pm)
- Home Is Where The New Pack Is (8/31/2020 8:03 pm)
- Day 5: A Soggy Return to the Trail (9/1/2020 9:00 pm)
- Day 6: The Shelter That Has Everything (9/2/2020 8:25 pm)
- Day 7: Hello to Big Blue (9/3/2020 10:03 pm)
- Day 8: A Short Jaunt to Relaxation (9/4/2020 9:08 pm)
- Day 9: Plans are Meant to be Broken (9/5/2020 8:14 pm)
- Day 10: Not the Campsite I Was Looking For, But the Campsite I Needed (9/6/2020 7:11 pm)
- Day 11: Northward Bound (9/7/2020 8:56 pm)
- Day 12: Smart Chicken (9/8/2020 9:22 pm)
- Day 13: The Frustrating Road Not Taken (9/9/2020 9:11 pm)
- Day 14: Triple-Distilled Spring Water (9/10/2020 8:41 pm)
- Day 15: A Sleepy Creek for a Sleepy Day (9/11/2020 8:45 pm)
- Day 16: Halfway to Somewhere (9/12/2020 8:40 pm)
- Day 17: Beware of Cats (9/13/2020 9:35 pm)
- Day 18: Zero in Hancock (9/14/2020 10:21 pm)
- Day 19: The C&O Canal Towpath (9/15/2020 8:31 pm)
- Day 20: A Rocky Start in Pennsylvania (9/16/2020 9:02 pm)
- Day 21: Forest Roadwalks are the Best Roadwalks (9/17/2020 8:48 pm)
- Day 22: Just Keep Going, Even When The Trail Sucks (9/18/2020 6:55 pm)
- Day 23: Land of Fallen Trees (9/19/2020 6:03 pm)
- Day 24: “Just Follow Your Nose” (9/20/2020 8:19 pm)
- Day 25: Shelter With A View (9/21/2020 9:01 pm)
- Day 26: Five Down, Many To Go (9/22/2020 10:19 pm)
- Day 27: A Dash Through the Cumberland Valley (9/23/2020 8:08 pm)
- Day 28: Let's Not Eat All The Ice Cream (9/24/2020 8:22 pm)
- Day 29: The Most Caretaken Shelter (9/25/2020 7:59 pm)
- Day 30: The Case of the Missing Shelter (9/26/2020 10:19 pm)
- Day 31: Return to Maryland (9/27/2020 10:35 pm)
- Day 32: Let’s Not Make a Stink About the Bugs (9/28/2020 7:26 pm)
- Day 33: A Race Against The Rain (9/29/2020 2:04 pm)
- Thoughts on the Tuscarora Trail (12/31/2021 11:24 pm)