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MST at 40: Five great hikes in the Piedmont
Sennett Hole, West Point on the Eno city park As the Mountains-to-Sea Trail celebrates its 40th anniversary, we celebrate the trail by looking at five of our favorite segments in...
MST at 40: Five Favorite Coastal Hikes
The MST through Jones Lake State Park For the Mountains-to-Sea Trail’ 40th anniversary, we celebrated the trail by looking at five of our favorite segments at the Coast. We focus...
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: BW Wells Pine Savannah, Penderlea Homestead
May is Mountains-to-Sea Trail Month. We plan to celebrate by hiking four sections of the MST running through the coastal plain, a newly designated route known as the Coastal Crescent....
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,...
Exploring the Mountains-to-Sea Trail’s Coastal Crescent route: Jones Lake/Turnbull Creek
May is Mountains-to-Sea Trail Month. We plan to celebrate by hiking four sections of the MST running through the coastal plain, a newly designated route known as the Coastal Crescent....
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...
Connect NC would build a stronger North Carolina State Park system
Umstead State Park’s Visitor Center was the result of the 1993 State Parks bond package When North Carolina voters overwhelmingly approved a $35 million bond package for their State Parks...
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...
Lost Cove and Harper Creek: a 30-year Wilderness Struggle
U.S. Forest Service officials are in the process of a four-year revision of the management plan for the The Pisgah and Nantahala national forests. Currently, the revision is undergoing the...
Public comment begins on Pisgah, Nantahala management plan revision
The Pisgah and Nantahala national forests are in the midst of a four-year review and revision of the management plan governing their use. Monday begins the public input phase of...
Mountains-to-Sea Trail fills in the gaps
Last week, we told you about the creation earlier this year of the Coastal Crescent Trail, a 320-mile arc designed to bridge the last big gap in the statewide Mountains-to-Sea...
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...
Raleigh-Durham: the Best Outside Town, period
Whitewater paddling. 113 miles of mountain bike trail. more than 200 miles of hiking trail (including one trail 75 miles long). A nearly interconnected 280-mile greenway system that now acts...
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...
Harper Creek, Lost Cove in danger of losing Wilderness Study Area status
It’s not unusual for hikers, backpackers, whitewater paddlers, trout fishermen and a host of other outdoor enthusiasts to refer to the Harper Creek and Lost Cove areas as “Wilderness Areas.”...