Pinhoti Trail
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The Pinhoti Trail, described as the Georgia Pinhoti Trail and the Alabama Pinhoti Trail is a connecting trail from the Appalachian Trail via the Benton MacKaye Trail to trail systems in Alabama.
From the Georgia Pinhoti Trail Association website:
"The original plan for the Appalachian Trail was laid out in 1925 at the first Appalachian Trail Conference. This plan showed a main trail running from Cohutta Mountain in North Georgia to Mount Washington in New Hampshire. This plan also proposed a spur trail from Mt. Washington to Mt. Katahdin in Maine and one from the Georgia Mountains into Northern Alabama. The spur in Maine was completed in 1940, while the spur into Alabama has yet to be blazed. However, the effort to make this Alabama spur trail a reality is underway and is the result of persistent work of many groups, individuals, agencies and organizations."
The Pinhoti Trail was completed in February 2008, and officially opened to the public on March 16, 2008.
