blue blazes meaning not always clear

[Blue Jay]

The Pink Blaze on the AT, I have a pic of. If thinking correctly the name of it is White Tail Trail.

The he(( with the picture just tell us where it is.

[GeneralLee10]

Okay lets see if this works.

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[GeneralLee10]

The he(( with the picture just tell us where it is.

Wish I could man! Hey thanks for the treats you left behind too.

[mudhead]

I don't recall where, but I went tearing down a blue "trail" somewhere.

It was a property line. That was amusing.

[ki0eh]

Folks in Maryland mark no trespassing with blue boundary blotches.

[kayak karl]

Okay lets see if this works.

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Batona Trail, NJ is pink blaze also

[Bucherm]

I vaguely recall that the "old" AT through Sky Meadows State Park is marked pink.

[Bronk]

Anybody reading in Missouri should be cautioned not to walk purple blazed "trails"...in Missouri purple paint is the legal equivalent of a no trespassing sign and many farmers will paint a purple blaze on trees to post their land.

[Blue Jay]

Wish I could man! Hey thanks for the treats you left behind too.

The thanks is all to you. Because of you I got to see the Traveling Circus again.

[GeneralLee10]

Batona Trail, NJ is pink blaze also

This picture looks like it was taken in FL. Is that correct?

[Rocket Jones]

This picture looks like it was taken in FL. Is that correct?

Just a guess, but I think the NJ stands for Joisey.

[Tilly]

This picture looks like it was taken in FL. Is that correct?

That is exactily what south Jersey looks like. It's NJ, not Florida.

[Bare Bear]

There is a place on the Florida Trail where three trails converge and you get a set of blazes with red/white/blue and orange (Florida Trail is always orange) all on one tree.

[kayak karl]

That is exactily what south Jersey looks like. It's NJ, not Florida.

are we going to start another SOUTH jersey debate?? LOL

[Mr. Clean]

a blue blazed trail only means that it touches the AT, nothing else. Here in the Whites, a yellow blazed trail does not touch the AT (theres lots of them). So, if I'm on a blue-blazed trail, I know that it will end on the AT eventually. I believe most areas are using the same marking schemes for blue blazes now, but yellow can also be many different colors.

[h. hastings]

but yellow can also be many different colors.

Must be something in those Maine blueberries .......

[LIhikers]

My choice of words was out of character for me. If I could retract them I would but that isn't possible. I have learned to be careful of the battles i choose to fight. They may not be worth the cost of winning. I apologize to all who read it.
I have asked many questions on this site and always gotten respectful replys in the past.

I'm the one who posted the original answer.
I didn't mean it with any attitude or disrespect, instead I was trying to give an answer that's short and concise. Like someone else said, there are many trails that intersect the AT in NY and they have many different color blazes. No specific color has any meaning except that the AT is always marked in white in NY. Know that there are places that the AT in NY also carries other blazes, in addition to plain white blazes, because it shares the treadway with another trail. But beware, because the AT isn't the only trail in NY that uses white as part of it's markings. So if you decide to take a trail, any trail, know before hand if it goes where you want to go or be willing to do some extra walking. You can gain that knowledge from the few signs found at trail intersection, or more reliably from trail maps and guide books. I hope that helps.

[wnderer]

Blue Blazes = Tar Nation

http://winterwoman.net/2008/01/20/wh...have-you-been/

[BrianLe]

I had hiked virtually none of the AT before thru-hiking this year and came to the trail knowing little about it. I don't know if that makes (made) me "objective" in any way, but FWIW the thing that bugged me in this general regard were several instances along the way of light blue blazes (or maybe "pale blue").

In a lot of cases, blue blazes were a bold blue color, but several times (in multiple states) I would have to get right up to the tree and stare, sometimes looking at more than one example to be sure, to be able to discern whether I was looking (inevitably in the shade) at a faded white blaze or a faded but looked like even originally very light blue blaze.

I would respectfully submit that it would be better for folks that are marking a trail with blue blazes to use only bold, primary blue colored paint, at least where it intersects the AT. I cannot believe that the original colors of the examples that I saw were anything but a very light blue.

Now, don't get me started about the Long Trail also being white blazed and about how really poorly the signage is done for a NOBO where the two split apart again after over a hundred friggin' miles (I walked some bonus L.T. miles that I really didn't want to ...).

[Mags]

Now, don't get me started about the Long Trail also being white blazed

The LT came first and they used white blazes. Up until fairly recently (saw them myself at least as of 1999) you could see very faint blue blazes on the AT section of where the LT/AT split.

The AT, being that 2000 mile long upstart trail, had blue blazes on the GMC section for the longest time!