You’ve been saving the date! What will we do this year for the 42nd Birthday Celebration of the MST? We’re sending you in 27 different directions to explore our amazing trail towns! Over the September 6-8th weekend, 27 [...]
Early morning Saturday, July 13th, a group of dedicated volunteers milled around, waiting to set off on different portions of the trail along Falls Lake (segment 10 of the MST). Unthwarted by the July heat, everyone gathered in [...]
Friends HQ in Raleigh is excited to host Sarah Richardson as a summer intern through the end of July. She is going to be a sophomore at the University of Maryland-College Park next fall, studying Environmental Science & [...]
By Dottie Cooke, Betsey & David Horth After walking several pilgrimages in Spain, Scotland, Italy and Israel over the past three years with our church, Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Greensboro, NC, a group of us hoped to [...]
We hope you have made plans to celebrate National Trails Day, this Saturday, on the MST or another trail near and dear to your heart. National Trails Day is a day of public events, always the first Saturday [...]
At the beginning of April, Friends received the most wonderful and unexpected surprise - a gift of $600 from Triangle Math and Science Academy, a charter school in Cary. Melissa Myers, a third grade teacher filled us in [...]
On Saturday, May 11th, Raleigh’s Ben Strunk, 30, will set off from Clingmans Dome in an attempt to set the trail’s fastest known time (FKT) by completing the statewide journey in 24 days, covering an average of nearly [...]
The first annual NC Trail Days, a multi-day festival celebrating the great outdoors, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail and other local trails, plus the great trail communities in Surry and Yadkin Counties will be held May 31 through June 2, [...]
The Town of Oak Ridge and the Oak Ridge Mountains-to-Sea Trail Committee welcome all to celebrate the official opening of the Cascades Preserve to Haw River Road section of the MST on May 3 at 3:30. The new [...]
More than 270 Friends of the MST came together in Surf City the weekend of March 22-24 for our annual Gathering weekend in Surf City and surrounding trail communities. Our hosts, Pender County Tourism and the Town of [...]
