Appalachian Trail Guide To Massachusetts Connecticut

Official guide to the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts & Connecticut

The official guide to the 145 miles of the Appalachian Trail between the Vermont and New York lines, paralleling the western borders of Massachusetts and Connecticut. Features of the route include Mt. Greylock, the nearby towns of the Berkshires, and the riverwalks of western Connecticut. This guidebook, in modern "unidirectional" format, comes with a set of four detached topographical maps (two sheets, printed on both sides), scaled at 1:63,360 with 100-foot contours and including elevation profiles, shelters and other features and water sources.

Consists of a guidebook and two detached, double-sided maps (in a display box) for 172 miles of the Appalachian Trail, from Kent, Connecticut, to Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area on the Pennsylvania/New Jersey border. The indexed book contains "omnidirectional" trail descriptions, natural and cultural history of the areas crossed, and information on road crossings, parking, shelters, water sources, points of interest, and general advice. The six-color mapsredone from scratch for this edition, using state-of-the-art GIS materials as the starting pointcover about 40 miles per side. The scale is an inch to a mile, with 50-foot contour intervals for the topography and the essential elevation profiles for the trail route.

The Appalachian Trail Data Book, updated every fall after each year's work by dedicated volunteers on this legendary footpath, is an essential companion for the Appalachian Trail hiker- whether out for the day or a six-month thru-hike from Georgia to Maine or Maine to Georgia. (It consistently ranks No. 1 among the publications long-distance hikers take with them.) It condenses into state-by-state tables-in an at-a-glance format-the distance information detailed in the 11 official Appalachian Trail guidebooks. The tables include coded information on shelter locations, water sources, post offices, road crossings, supply sources, lodging, and eateries. Distances between major features and facilities are presented for both north-to-south and south-to-north travelers, following the white blazes of the A.T.

Tenth Edition, 1996. Covers 142 miles from Vermont line to Connecticut-New York line near Kent, Connecticut, and side trails in the northern Berkshires (Mt. Greylock area). Five four-color topographic maps on three sheets, with elevation profiles; scale, 1:38,750. 148 pages.