It occurs to be that my previous post on the Great Eastern Trail (GET) and the Appalachian Trail (AT) seemed to suggest that there are only a few long distance trails in the United States. In addition to the GET, and the AT, I also mention the Pacific Coast Trail (PCT) and the Continental Divide Trail (CDT). While the AT, PCT, and CDT make up what is commonly referred to as the Triple Crown, there are many other long distance (some even longer than these) in the USA. Some are so long that the list of thru-hikers (a person who walks the entire trail in a single year, more or less non-stop) is in the single digits.

There are so many trails, with so much variety, I’m beginning to wonder why the AT receives what appears to be the bulk of the long distance thru-hikers. It is making me reconsider my own nascent thru-hike plans.

Below is a list of trails greater than 100 miles I found on wikipedia. I then made notes (to myself if no one else) and created a hyperlink to either the trail’s maintaining body, or the best information page I could find. I will likely link this as a resource page at some point, and periodically update it as appropriate.