Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy
History. Art. And the Great Outdoors.
This Friday we'll be moving the old stone steps from the old Hickory Knoll trailhead to their new home at Warwoman Dell. We will be incorporating the stones into the Bartram Trail at the steep section where it leaves the Dell and heads up to the road crossing. It is going to be a hot […]
Join us for another Walking with Bartram series hike. We're getting closer to completing the full Bartram Trail and then we're planning on doing it again! This month we'll be starting at Appletree Campground and walking a little over five miles to Piercy Creek and then 1.5 miles down the Piercy Creek trail to Wayah […]
On this coming second Saturday we'll be working on the Appletree section between Piercy Creek and the Duke Energy Surge tank. We'll meet at Appletree Campground at 9AM and will divide up into two teams there. Please bring work gloves, good boots, plenty of water, lunch, any meds you might need and esprit de corps. […]
This month we'll be working the Bartram from its southern terminus at Russell bridge on the SC state line towards Holden farm. Please bring work gloves, good boots, plenty of water, lunch, any meds you might need and esprit de corps. We'll start at 9AM and wrap up at 3pm. If you're new to trail […]
This is a new program for those looking to get involved but with limited time. We will meet in the early afternoon to divide and conquer some minor clean up and trail head maintenance. We're looking for folks to visit a set of selected trail heads to re-stock Bartram Trail information cards, complete a trail […]
This is the second half of the section from Appletree Group Campground that we split into two to manage the mileage. We'll start at the Beechertown trailhead and finish up with another crossing of the Nantahala River at the Piercy Creek pulloff. We'll plan to meet at the Piercy Creek pulloff at 9am and shuttle […]
We will be working the section between Harrison Gap an Wayah Bald. Brent Martin will be out of town for this volunteer day and we are fortunate to have Jim Chance taking lead. Please bring work gloves, good boots, plenty of water, lunch, any meds you might need and esprit de corps. We'll start at […]
Location details TBD. We look to trail condition reports and consider larger improvement projects when choosing our workday locations. Please bring work gloves, good boots, plenty of water, lunch, any meds you might need and esprit de corps. We'll start at 9AM and wrap up at 3pm. If you're new to trail maintenance or just […]
Please join us for this last official section of our section-hike-through from Cheoah Bald to Beechertown the trailhead. This section will be about 7.5 miles in total. We've planned this section for the least amount of backtracking and elevation gain, but it will still be an interesting hike. We're planning to meet at the Beechertown […]
This is a new program for those looking to get involved but with limited time. We will meet in the early afternoon to divide and conquer some minor clean up and trail head maintenance. We’re looking for folks to visit a set of selected trail heads to re-stock Bartram Trail information cards, complete a trail […]
Join us for the third discussion in the Bartram Environmental Writer's Series, Ecopoetry from the Great Smokies - A Discussion with Loss Glazier on his book "Transparent Mountain". This Friday, September 2nd at 2pm, local author and poet Loss Glazier and Brent Martin of Alarka Expeditions and Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy will hold a […]
Historian Lamar Marshall's talk will focus on the earliest history of the Old Campground and its evolution as a public meeting place for early church meetings and its eventual location as a prison camp. It is very likely, though not proven yet, that Cherokees transported from Fort Lindsay to Camp Dudley in or very near […]
