Appalachian National Scenic Trail AT

The record

Kind

Designated trailDesignated, maintained and published as one trail by a land agency or a trail association

Designation

National Scenic Trail (1968)

Tier

National Scenic TrailA United States National Scenic Trail

Listing

First setIn the first set of trails

Inclusion

Listed unconditionallyEvery National Scenic Trail is listed

Where

GA NC TN VA WV MD PA NJ NY CT MA VT NH ME (Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine), United States

Published length

3,537 km2,198 mi2,198 mi published by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy. A check value, not measured from the line.

Short name

AT

Record ID

appalachianStable: the directory name, never changed

Verification Checked 2026-11-08

Measured

YesThe line was downloaded and measured

Published

3,537 km2,198 mi

Measured

3,481.1 km2,163 migeodesic, from the line

Difference

−1.6%measured minus published

Parts

1pieces left after joining ends within 100 m

3029 features join into 1 continuous line; 1.6% short of 3,537 km.

Source and licence

Line in this dataset

line.geojsonThe main line file of the record

Source status

VerifiedThe line was downloaded from the source and measured

Publisher

National Park Service Appalachian NST and Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Source

https://services1.arcgis.com/fBc8EJBxQRMcHlei/ArcGIS/rest/services/ANST_Centerline/FeatureServer/0Where to ask for the line: a layer or relation page

Line source

National Park Service Appalachian NST and Appalachian Trail Conservancy

Format

ArcGIS FeatureServer layer (query as GeoJSON or Esri JSON, 2,000 rows a page)

Main line

One layer, 3,027 features, all 'Official A.T. Route'. No alternates or side trails in the layer; one stray 'Webcliff' feature to filter by name.How the main line is told apart from alternates, connectors and side trails

Coordinates

EPSG:3857 (ask for outSR=4326)What the source stores; published files are longitude/latitude (EPSG:4326)

Licence

US public domain

Credit

National Park Service Appalachian National Scenic Trail & Appalachian Trail ConservancyThe credit line to show, as the source asks

May be passed on

YesThe source's terms allow its line to be passed on

OpenStreetMap only

No

Source checked

2026-11-08

Newer release?

arcgis-layer-edit-date: GET <layer>?f=json and read editingInfo.dataLastEditDate (and the feature count); fetch again when either changesHow to tell whether the source has a newer release

What the source says

United States federal government work, public domain in the United States under 17 U.S.C. 105. The National Park Service states: 'Data and content created by government employees within the scope of their employment are not subject to domestic copyright protection under 17 U.S.C. 105.' (https://irma.nps.gov/DataStore/Reference/Profile/2311077, read 2026-11-09). The service credits the National Park Service Appalachian National Scenic Trail and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (2023); the Conservancy's share is not separately licensed in the service.

With the page it was read on. Not legal advice.

OpenStreetMap

Relation

156553

Note

OSM super-relation 156553 plus 13 per-state relations; not needed.

Logo

Status

Logo in useThe trail has a logo

Holder

Appalachian Trail Conservancy (appalachiantrail.org); NPS Appalachian NST office

Taken from

https://appalachiantrail.org/

File

shield.svg

Note

ATC owns registered marks; its brand guidelines cover volunteers and one-time uses only, no general licence found. The official emblem of a National Scenic Trail is a federal insignia (18 U.S.C. 701; Federal Register notices of 2000-03-28 cover Ice Age, North Country and Natchez Trace; status for the others not confirmed). Use needs the administering agency's permission.