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PTA Site Map
Pinhoti Trail Alliance
Connecting Alabama and Georgia to the Appalachian Trail
The Pinhoti Trail
A Premier Southeast
Long Distance Hiking Trail
The appx. 325 mile Pinhoti National Recreation Trail / Millennium Legacy Trail is a
continuous point to point hiking trail that travels through nearly equal measures of high
rocky ridges and stream filled gorges and hollows along the final southern reaches of the
Appalachians from east central Alabama to northwest Georgia.
Flagg Mountain is the southern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail. It is located south east of
Birmingham in Alabama's Weogulfga State Forest near the town of Weogulfga and is
noted for being the final southern Appalachian Mountain over 1000 feet high (1152').
The northern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail is where it intersects at the Benton MacKaye
Trail near Dyer Gap, south west of the Georgia - Tennessee - North Carolina state line.
From the northern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail, you can travel east on the Benton
MacKaye Trail appx. 70 miles to Springer Mountain, which is the southern terminus of the
Appalachian Trail.
The Pinhoti Trail is a vital part of Benton MacKaye’s vision of an Appalachian Trail
connector network and the Pinhoti easily maintains the true Appalachian Trail Mystique
with all of its endless contrasts and varieties. The Southern Appalachians are famous for
their soaring craggy peaks, lush watersheds, the people and cultures that surround them
and... ghost stories.
We are truly fortunate to have these very unique areas protected by the Talladega
National Forest, Alabama's Forever Wild Land Trust, the Chattahoochee National Forest
and private land easements. This trail is one of the many crown jewels in our region.
"An Appalachian Trail"
In 1921, Benton MacKaye published an article in the Journal of the American Institute of
Architects titled "An Appalachian Trail". This document describes in great detail his
vision of a rural America connected by a vast hiking trail system and support system that
would span the entire U. S. east coast along the Appalachian Mountain Range.
That widely supported document would later go on to produce what we now know as The
Appalachian Trail, The Appalachian Trail Conservancy and also the large number of trails
that connect the AT to the surrounding rural communities and other areas of the
Appalachians. The Pinhoti Trail is part of this network of connector trails.
This document serves as a good reminder to the Pinhoti Trail community of who we really
are, what our primary focus is about and where our responsibility and commitment lies,
and therefore, our relationship to the Appalachian Trail needs to remain steady as a
prominent cornerstone of our identity.
PTA Site Map
Pinhoti Trail Alliance
Connecting Alabama and Georgia to the Appalachian Trail
The Pinhoti Trail
A Premier Southeast
Long Distance Hiking Trail
The appx. 325 mile Pinhoti National Recreation Trail / Millennium Legacy Trail is a
continuous point to point hiking trail that travels through nearly equal measures of high
rocky ridges and stream filled gorges and hollows along the final southern reaches of the
Appalachians from east central Alabama to northwest Georgia.
Flagg Mountain is the southern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail. It is located south east of
Birmingham in Alabama's Weogulfga State Forest near the town of Weogulfga and is
noted for being the final southern Appalachian Mountain over 1000 feet high (1152').
The northern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail is where it intersects at the Benton MacKaye
Trail near Dyer Gap, south west of the Georgia - Tennessee - North Carolina state line.
From the northern terminus of the Pinhoti Trail, you can travel east on the Benton
MacKaye Trail appx. 70 miles to Springer Mountain, which is the southern terminus of the
Appalachian Trail.
The Pinhoti Trail is a vital part of Benton MacKaye’s vision of an Appalachian Trail
connector network and the Pinhoti easily maintains the true Appalachian Trail Mystique
with all of its endless contrasts and varieties. The Southern Appalachians are famous for
their soaring craggy peaks, lush watersheds, the people and cultures that surround them
and... ghost stories.
We are truly fortunate to have these very unique areas protected by the Talladega
National Forest, Alabama's Forever Wild Land Trust, the Chattahoochee National Forest
and private land easements. This trail is one of the many crown jewels in our region.
"An Appalachian Trail"
In 1921, Benton MacKaye published an article in the Journal of the American Institute of
Architects titled "An Appalachian Trail". This document describes in great detail his
vision of a rural America connected by a vast hiking trail system and support system that
would span the entire U. S. east coast along the Appalachian Mountain Range.
That widely supported document would later go on to produce what we now know as The
Appalachian Trail, The Appalachian Trail Conservancy and also the large number of trails
that connect the AT to the surrounding rural communities and other areas of the
Appalachians. The Pinhoti Trail is part of this network of connector trails.
This document serves as a good reminder to the Pinhoti Trail community of who we really
are, what our primary focus is about and where our responsibility and commitment lies,
and therefore, our relationship to the Appalachian Trail needs to remain steady as a
prominent cornerstone of our identity.
PTA Site Map
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