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Section hiking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail, with Jerry Barker
Jerry Barker, right, discusses the trail with a fan before his Pints & Paths presentation. As a part of our Pints & Paths programs with GetGoingNC.com, Jerry Barker came to...
MST’s 40th Anniversary: Mark Your Calendars
Got your calendar handy? Good. The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is celebrating 40 years of existence and the Friends of the MST have quite a year of celebrating on tap. March 24...
Happy 40th, Mountains-to-Sea Trail!
Click here for an interactive version of the map Tradition holds that a ruby makes a nice 40th anniversary gift. Fortunately, the Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail don’t stand on...
Take a hike, fix a trail: Saturday is National Trails Day
The following items are from our GetExploring! Greenville and GetHiking! Charlotte, Triad and Triangle enewsletters. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email boxes on Mondays. If you’d like...
Exploring the Mountains-to-Sea Trail’s Coastal Crescent route: Holly Shelter Game Land
Long stretches on smooth trail make for contemplative hiking. May is Mountains-to-Sea Trail Month. We plan to celebrate by hiking four sections of the MST running through the coastal plain,...
Four hikes close to home on the Mountains-to-Sea Trail
MST along Falls Lake The Mountains-to-Sea Trail — to some, the name may give the false impression that you must travel to either the mountains or the sea to hike...
More trail, more camping, more support: the Mountains-to-Sea Trail continues to grow
It costs an estimated $4 million to $6 million to build a mile of four-lane highway in a rural area. How much does it cost to build a mile of...
This week in GetHiking! GetExploring!
The following items are gleaned from our GetHiking! enewsletters for Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle, and our GetExploring! Greenville enewsletter. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email...
This week in GetHiking! GetExploring!
The following items are gleaned from our GetHiking! enewsletters for Charlotte, the Triad and the Triangle, and our GetExploring! Greenville enewsletter. All enewsletters are delivered, upon request, to subscribers’ email...
The Mountains-to-Sea Trail blazes on, including a new route to the coast
In the world of trail blazing, progress on the statewide Mountains-to-Sea Trail has progressed with blazing speed over the past year. Consider: Earlier this year, the Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea...
To Tom Earnhardt, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is ‘a thousand miles of discovery’
There’s no doubt that the growing popularity of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail contributed to Saturday’s record attendance at the Friends of the MST annual meeting. There’s also no doubt that having...
Mountains-to-Sea Trail shedding its anonymity
Imagine a transportation corridor running 1,150 miles across North Carolina, yet existing in anonymity to most residents of the state. “The Mountains-to-Sea Trail still remains the best-kept secret in North...
Mountains-to-Sea Trail goes south to blaze a new route to the coast
Hiking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail near Durham. The Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail wants you to celebrate Mountains-to-Sea Trail Month by hiking the statewide trail, a work in progress. Meanwhile, the...