The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is North Carolina’s state hiking trail. It stretches 1175 miles from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks, stopping at many of our state’s most beautiful places along the way.

We’ve also added icons to help you find trail segments and mileage, parking, and trail alerts, as well as photos taken along the trail route. The route on this map depicts the “current” route – the combination trail/backroad route that people use now to complete the MST.

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is a simple footpath stretching almost 1,200 miles across North Carolina from Kuwohi in the Great Smoky Mountains to Jockey’s Ridge on the Outer Banks. More than just a walk in the woods, the MST traces the diversity that is North Carolina.

The Sauratown Mountains Pilot Mountain State Park to Hanging Rock State Park 35.0 miles Difficulty: to

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is as diverse as the state it showcases. Depending on the section of the trail, you may see mountain vistas, rolling Piedmont farms, picture postcard colonial towns, weathered tobacco barns, old textile villages, country churches, rushing mountain streams, coastal swamps, hardwood and pine forests, lighthouses, sand ...

Dec 12, 2024 · Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail’s trail guides provide all the information needed to complete each of the 18 trail segments and alternate paddle route, including detailed hiking directions, going both east and west; information about where to get supplies, lodging, camping, food, and water along the trail; and trailheads, complete with ...

By Carolyn Sakowski and Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. This segment, covering almost 85 miles, offers the hiker some of the most astounding scenery in northwestern North Carolina.

Dec 19, 2024 · The good news coming out of our call is that we are planning a workday in coordination with the Parkway and Carolina Mountain Club in the new year to clear the majority of the unopened trail corridor in the Asheville area. Watch for news on that early next year.

By George Poehlman, JoEllen Mason and Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. This 61-mile segment of the MST allows travelers to explore an area central to North Carolina’s history leading up to and through the Revolutionary War and as a leader in the textile industry.

By Jim Grode and Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail This 63-mile segment, located in one of the most biodiverse areas of the world, showcases that diversity. Nearly all the major plant communities of the southern Appalachians are represented, from spruce-fir forests typically found in Canada to rich cove forests, and from rhododendron ...