We are sharing tales from the MST as hikers are pursuing the 40 Hike Challenge. This week we are exploring the Great Day Hike #24: Raleigh’s Neuse River Greenway: Buffaloe Road to Milburnie Park hiked by Grace Iovine If [...]
A group of more than 40 people came together in early January to help with some much needed improvements on the Neusiok Trail section of the MST in Croatan National Forest (Segment 16). By day's end a significant [...]
The first SIX people have completed the 40 Hike Challenge, hiking all 40 of the Great Day Hikes on the MST! Nashua and Hussein El-Genk, of Durham, with their four kids, Zakariyya, Ayyub, Kareema and Rasheed, recently finished [...]
We are sharing tales from the MST as hikers are pursuing the 40 Hike Challenge. This week we are exploring the Great Day Hike #10 in Segment 5, CONE MANOR CARRIAGE TRAILS: Shulls Mill Road to Flat Top Manor, [...]
Appropriately, a podcast focused on the Southeast begins with the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. About 15 years ago I was in Colorado backpacking with a friend when I mentioned I was writing a book, “100 Classic Hikes in North Carolina.” [...]
In some ways, the trail has been there for all of us this year. The MST has been a busy place in 2020, as experienced hikers and first-timers have looked for safe places to be outdoors. Those that [...]
What better way to introduce your children to the outdoors than by hiking the Mountains-to-Sea Trail with them? That's what North Carolina native, Katie Rankin, and her family are doing. Katie and her husband were enthusiastic road and [...]
We are sharing tales from the MST as hikers are pursuing the 40 Hike Challenge. This week we are exploring the Great Day Hike #15 in Segment 7, Pilot Mountain, hiked by Joanne Perri. Pilot Mountain is an iconic [...]
If you are feeling glum after the final episode of the Away Message MST podcast series, Julie “Jester” Gayheart has picked up the proverbial podcast hiking stick. Jester, an AT completer, had been mildly curious about the MST for [...]
As expected, fewer people have hiked (and completed) the Mountains-to-Sea Trail this year than in recent years. For those that did, they had to be incredibly self reliant. Most trail angels weren't offering rides or places to [...]
