The Allegheny Trail
The Allegheny Trail is a 330-mile (or will be when the last 20
miles are completed) north-south trail whose northern terminus is on the Mason-Dixon
Line at the Pennsylvania-West Virginia border near Bruceton Mills.
It wends its way south until it meets the Appalachian Trail on
Peters Mountain at the Virginia-West Virginia border. Volunteer
workers maintain all sections of the Allegheny Trail, which is marked
by 2"x 6" yellow blazes.
In 2000, the Allegheny Trail (along with four
other trails in West Virginia--the WV sections of the
American Discovery Trail, the Greenbrier Trail, the
Brooke Pioneer Trail and the Hatfield McCoy Trail System)
was designated as a Millenium Trail by the Millenium
Council.
The Allegheny Trail, for maintenance purposes, is divided into four
"sections," described briefly below and in detail in the "Hiking Guide."
. .
. And you can do your part to help the trail. You can adopt a mile
or 100 miles. Contact your section coordinator to arrange the
adoption.
Section 1 starts at the Pennsylvania
line and ends at the stables at Blackwater Falls State Park.
NOTICE:
Allegheny
Wood Products has closed the trail through the Cheat Canyon
for road construction and logging operations.
A re-route has been blazed.
Watch
this space for news of a re-route of the trail over Briery Mountain
"north" of Rowlesburg. The Army National Guard is enlarging its
practice firing range and will close the abandoned county road that
the ALT currently uses. National Guard personnel are working with
ALT maintainers to establish an alternate route. A re-route is
expected before the end of the 2009 summer hiking season. Section 2 starts at the stables at Blackwater
Falls State Park and ends at the parking lot at the Cass Scenic
Railroad.
Section 3 starts at the Cass parking
lot. The end of section 3 is in Greenbrier County where the trail
meets county road 14.
Section 4 is incomplete, although two
segments are open and available for backpacking. The trail is open
from the southern terminus of section 3 to Interstate 64, where
it breaks and picks up again at Laurel Branch in Monroe County,
ending on Peters Mountain at a junction with the Appalachian Trail.
Shuttle service
from I-64 to Laurel Branch is available by contacting tracy@outdooradventures.com
or calling 1-888-PLAYWVA. You will need to make any shuttle arrangements
in advance. |
