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Benton MacKaye Trail near Fall Branch Falls, Georgia. The Benton MacKaye Trail or BMT is a footpath nearly 300 miles (480 km) in length in the Appalachian Mountains in the southeastern United States and is blazed by a white diamond, 5″ across by 7″ tall.
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos Getty/Library of CongressIt has been 100 years since an out-of-work forester named Benton MacKaye came up with the idea for an Appalachian Trail ...
Benton MacKaye Trail: 287.6 [7] 463 Southern Appalachian Mountains: Springer Mountain in Georgia: Big Creek, north of Mount Sterling [8] connects from the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail; traverses Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina. Both endpoints meet with the Appalachian Trail. Together, the two trails form a figure-8 loop ...
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Rocky Mountain, [10] elevation 4,017 feet (1,224 m), is located on the Appalachian Trail along the boundary between Towns and White counties. [11] Via the Appalachian Trail, its summit of Rocky Mountain is located about 51.5 miles (82.9 km) from Springer Mountain, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail.
Myron Avery. Myron Haliburton Avery (November 3, 1899–July 26, 1952) was an American lawyer, hiker and explorer. Born in Lubec, Maine, Avery was a protégé of Judge Arthur Perkins and a collaborator and sometimes rival of Benton MacKaye.
Shallowford Bridge is a steel truss bridge built in 1918 [1] that crosses the Toccoa River in north Georgia, United States.The bridge, located on Aska Road close to the city of Blue Ridge, is 175 feet in length, and 11 feet wide.