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Average 2.5 50% Thru-Hike Length million hikers of thru-hikers complete the trail Mount annually 5-7 Katahdin 2,190 in their 20s months Miles Long MAINE Vermont About Augusta Approximately Speck Pond 25% Shelter of all thru-hikers Mount Montpelier Washington 12,000 are women Travels through Successful Hanover NEW HAMPSHIRE 14 Thru-Hikers Concord states Boston MASSACHUSETTS Albany NEW YORK Pittsfield Providence

Average Cost Poughkeepsie Hartford RHODE ISLAND of a Thru-Hike CONNECTICUT Highest Point $3,000 Kirkridge Shelter

6,700 ft PENNSYLVANIA Trenton Philadelphia NEW Harrisburg JERSEY Pittsburgh

Baltimore Toughest Climb Ed Garvey Harper’s Ferry Shelter DELAWARE

More than David Lesser 4,292 Memorial Shelter ft MARYLAND 250 (the last five miles WEST in Maine) Shenendoah National Park shelters Charleston Richmond

Virginia Roanoke

Mount Rogers

Raleigh Overmountain Shelter Roan Mount Guyot Nashville North Carolina National Park Old Black TENNESSEE Clingman’s Dome 2014 653 Chattanooga Blood Mountain Shelter Northbound Memphis Thru-hikers Springer Mountain SOUTH CAROLINA Athens 1,267 National Forests Charleston

National Parks GEORGIA Harper’s Ferry Highest Peaks Thru-hiker 2,500 checkpoints Notable Shelters measure the amount of hikers that began the 0 50 100 200 hike in Georgia, Miles made it halfway to Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia, and finished the hike in Maine. N Clingman’s Dome (6,643 ft)

Old Black (6,370 ft) Mt Guyot (6,621 ft)

Roan High Knob (6,286 ft) Mt. Washington (6,289 ft)

Mt Rogers (5,728 ft) Springer Mtn (3,780 ft) Mt. Greylock (3,491 ft) Mt. Katahdin(5,269 ft)

Map Projection: Albers Equal Area Conic Inset Map Projection: Albers Equal Area Conic Standard Parallel 1: 29.5° N Standard Parallel 2: 45.5° N Central Meridian: 96° E Data Sources: Appalachian Trail Conservancy (http://www.appalachian- trail.org), Natural Earth (http://www.naturalearthdata.com) Icons: The Noun Project (https://thenounproject.com), Icons by Alex Fuller, Montana Rucobo Elevation Cartographer: Meg Fredericks