Mountain to Sea Trail

North Carolina's Mountains To Sea Trail (MST) stretches from Clingman's Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Jockey's Ridge State Park by the Atlantic Ocean. The mainline distance is 908 miles. Unlike the Appalachian Trail, there are no shelters or official campsites along the trail. The trail has been defined but is not all complete. Look at Friend of Mountain-to-Sea Trail www.ncmst.org  for all the details.

deHart, Allen. Hiking North Carolina’s Mountains-to-Sea Trail. University of North Carolina Press, 2000. The best guide on the MST by one of the first hikers to do the whole trail.

Weber, Walt for the Carolina Mountain Club. Trail Profiles The mountains to Sea Trail from Beech Gap to Black Mountain Campground. 1999. Available from the Carolina Mountain Club. www.carolinamtnclub.org . This booklet describes the much of the trail maintained by the Carolina Mountain Club.

For MST hikes, look at www.carolinamtnclub.org/hikesall.asp?AreaLocation=MST