Is this it?

[dje97001]

Is this list of state forests, National Forests, National Parks, State Parks, National Historic places, etc. that the trail passes through complete/correct?

ME
Baxter SP
Bigelow Preserve
Grafton Notch SP

NH
White Mountain NF
-Mt. Washington SP
-Crawford Notch SP
-Franconia Notch SP

VT
Green Mountain NF
-Gifford Woods SP
Calvin Coolidge SF
Green Mountain NF
-Hapgood SF

MA
Clarksburg SF
Mt. Greylock SR
October Mountain SF
Beartown SF
East Mountain SF
Mt. Everett SR

CT
Housatonic SF
Housatonic Meadows SP

NY
Depot Hill SF
Clarence Fahnestock Memorial SP
Hudson Highlands SP
Bear Mountain-Harriman SP

NJ
Abram S. Hewitt SF
Wawayanda SP
High Point SP
Stokes SF
Delaware Water Gap NRA (What does "NRA" mean in this case?)
Worthington SF

PA
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Swatara SP
Pine Grove Furnace SP
Michaux SF
Caledonia SP

MD
South Mountain SP
Greenbrier SP
Washington Monument SP
Gathland SP

WV
Harpers Ferry NHP
Sky Meadows SP
G.R. Thompson State Wildlife Management Area
George Washington NF
Jefferson NF
-Grayson Highlands SP
Cherokee NF
Pisgah NF
Great Smoky Mountain NP
Nantahala NF
Chattahoochee NF
-Amicalola SP


Thanks!
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[The Cheat]

Not sure if this counts, but leaving Connecticut and entering New York, the trail goes right down the middle of the Pawling Nature Reserve.

Here's the information:
http://nature.org/wherewework/northa.../art13510.html

[MarcnNJ]

National Recreation Area

[The Solemates]

why did you stop at WV?

what about VA, TN, NC, GA?

[The Solemates]

sorry...i just realized that all the southern states were listed under WV and dont have separate state descriptions.

[Cookerhiker]

In New Jersey, you may wish to note Walkill National Wildlife Refuge, the only NWR through which the Trail passes.

And in Connecticut, the Trail passes through Shaghticoke Indian Reservation, the subject of many disputes.

Also since you're listing everything by state, the southernmost part of Maine is also in White Mt. National Forest.

[dje97001]

Solmates: Yikes! How did I miss that... right.

Cheat and Cookerhiker: Nice! That is the kind of stuff I don't want to leave out.

[astrogirl]

You missed Shenandoah National Park.

[dje97001]

Thanks for the help, this is the revised list. Anything else I'm missing/or listing incorrectly?

ME
Baxter SP
Bigelow Preserve
Grafton Notch SP
White Mountain NF NH
White Mountain NF
-Mt. Washington SP
-Crawford Notch SP
-Franconia Notch SP

VT
Green Mountain NF
-Gifford Woods SP
Calvin Coolidge SF
Green Mountain NF
-Hapgood SF

MA
Clarksburg SF
Mt. Greylock SR
October Mountain SF
Beartown SF
East Mountain SF
Mt. Everett SR

CT
Housatonic SF
Housatonic Meadows SP
Schaghticoke Indian Reservation

NY
Pawling Nature Reserve
Depot Hill SF
Clarence Fahnestock Memorial SP
Hudson Highlands SP
Bear Mountain-Harriman SP

NJ
Abram S. Hewitt SF
Wawayanda SP
Wallkill NWR
High Point SP
Stokes SF
Delaware Water Gap NRA (What does "NRA" mean in this case?)
Worthington SF

PA
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Swatara SP
Pine Grove Furnace SP
Michaux SF
Caledonia SP

MD
South Mountain SP
Greenbrier SP
Washington Monument SP
Gathland SP

WV
Harpers Ferry NHP

VA
Sky Meadows SP
G.R. Thompson State Wildlife Management Area
George Washington NF
-Shenandoah NP
Jefferson NF
-Grayson Highlands SP

TN
Cherokee NF
Great Smoky Mountain NP

NC
Pisgah NF
Great Smoky Mountain NP
Nantahala NF
Chattahoochee NF
-Amicalola SP

[dje97001]

ME
Baxter SP
Bigelow Preserve
Grafton Notch SP
White Mountain NF

NH
White Mountain NF
-Mt. Washington SP
-Crawford Notch SP
-Franconia Notch SP

VT
Green Mountain NF
-Gifford Woods SP
Calvin Coolidge SF
Green Mountain NF
-Hapgood SF

MA
Clarksburg SF
Mt. Greylock SR
October Mountain SF
Beartown SF
East Mountain SF
Mt. Everett SR

CT
Housatonic SF
Housatonic Meadows SP
Schaghticoke Indian Reservation

NY
Pawling Nature Reserve
Depot Hill SF
Clarence Fahnestock Memorial SP
Hudson Highlands SP
Bear Mountain-Harriman SP

NJ
Abram S. Hewitt SF
Wawayanda SP
Wallkill NWR
High Point SP
Stokes SF
Delaware Water Gap NRA (What does "NRA" mean in this case?)
Worthington SF

PA
Hawk Mountain Sanctuary
Swatara SP
Pine Grove Furnace SP
Michaux SF
Caledonia SP

MD
South Mountain SP
Greenbrier SP
Washington Monument SP
Gathland SP

WV
Harpers Ferry NHP

VA
Sky Meadows SP
G.R. Thompson State Wildlife Management Area
George Washington NF
-Shenandoah NP
Jefferson NF
-Grayson Highlands SP

TN
Cherokee NF
Great Smoky Mountain NP

NC
Pisgah NF
Great Smoky Mountain NP
Nantahala NF
Chattahoochee NF
-Amicalola SP

[Alligator]

Are you interested in federally designated wilderness areas?

[dje97001]

Someone asked me the other day how many state forests and national parks we'd be travelling through... and despite all of the research I'd done and all of the things that I had learned, I found myself totally unable to answer that question! So I figured I had better come up with a list. Anyway, I'd like to have a list of all of the various designated areas I'll be walking through. So this is what I've got so far. I'd take whatever you could add.

[Alligator]

No maps handy, I'm out of town, but I'm fairly certain there are several wilderness areas in VA that the trail passes through.

[totempole99]

Delaware Water Gap NRA (What does "NRA" mean in this case?)

National Recreation Area

[Whistler]

TN
Cherokee NF
Great Smoky Mountain NP

NC
Pisgah NF
Great Smoky Mountain NP
Nantahala NF
Chattahoochee NF
-Amicalola SP

Hey! If you list GSMNP under 2 states, you can do the same for the Chattahoochee NF. Where's good ol' GA?
-Mark

[FatMan]

Not a big deal but for the sake of accuracy the current trail does not pass through Amicalola, only the approach trail does. Many thru-hikers by pass the approach trail and reach Springer from FS 42.

[dperry]

. . .we also have Pennsylvania Game Lands 168, 217, 106, 110, 211, & 170.

[BobS]

PA also has Weiser State Forest and the DWGNRA. In NY, the trail goes through the new Sterling Forest State Park, but within NPS corridor I think.

[dje97001]

Good stuff... keep it coming. Thanks.

[weary]

ME
Baxter SP
Bigelow Preserve
Grafton Notch SP
White Mountain NF

This list has major omissions and the trail in Maine does not go through the White Mountain National Forest.

The major omissions include:

Mahoosuc Preserve, Four Ponds Preserve and Nahmakanta Preserve. Mahoosuc runs from the New Hampshire border to the East B Hill Road north of the multiple Baldpate summits. The relatively small Grafton Notch State Park divides the Mahoosuc Preserve, which totals around 40,000 acres.

Four Ponds is around 15,000 acres between Route 17 and Route 4 south of Saddleback. Nahmakanta is about 40,000 acres located south of Baxter State Park in the so called "100-mile-wilderness."

All three, along with Bigelow, were created in part out of the recovery of 400,000 acres of land that Maine reserved when it sold its public domain during the first half of the 19th century -- and then forgot what it had done. The scattered acres were treated as private lands for more than a century.

Out of court settlements and eventually a Maine Supreme Court decision resulted in the swapping of scattered 1,000+ acre parcels for larger parcels of equal value and more suited for public recreation and state forest management.

There are a number of smaller state preserves through which the trail runs. I don't have a complete list.

Weary