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Off the Path: Where the Appalachian Trail began

Brave Little State by Vermont Public Radio

Jan 8, 202614:08Society & Culture

Today, the origin story of the Appalachian Trail, which stretches more than 2,000 miles from Maine to Georgia. But it was a peak in southern Vermont that inspired the idea of the trail in the first place. Thanks to one o...

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