Blue Ridge Bartram Trail Conservancy
History. Art. And the Great Outdoors.
This year's Bartram Trail Conference is being held at the University of Georgia in Athens from August 4-5. More information, registration, and up-to-date information can be found on the Bartram Trail Conference website. The schedule of events: Friday, August 4, UGA Special Collections Library Registration opens at 4 p.m. with book sales and special exhibits. […]
The Photography exhibition With Rapture & Astonishment is on view in the Circle Gallery at the University of Georgia from June 24th through September 12th. This exhibition takes its name from a quote by American artist, botanist and ethnographer William Bartram. Upon reaching the summit of Wayah Bald in the Nantahala National Forest, Bartram “beheld […]
Please join us for a great day of volunteering on the Bartram Trail for our Second Saturday Workday on August 12th, 2023. Location TBD, we will update with more details closer to the date. Please bring work gloves, good boots, plenty of water, lunch, any meds you might need and esprit de corps. If you’re […]
UPDATED 7/24: We've reach capacity at this time and will start a waiting list. Please email us directly if you would like to be on the list in case of cancelations. Join us for another Boating With Bartram trip down the Little Tennessee River. This time, we'll find our way down the river through Cowee […]
*** This trail maintenance day has been canceled. We hope to see you out on a future outing! ** Please consider joining us for our August 18th, Third Friday Workday from 9am to 3pm. Location TBD, we'll update with more details closer to the event date. Please bring work gloves, good boots, plenty of water, […]
This will be a relatively long hike at around 8 miles, but well worth the views from Wayah Bald as well as over Lake Nantahala as we approach it. We'll pass through Sawmill Gap on the way down. This section shares about a mile or so with the Appalachian Trail just below Wayah Bald to […]
We’ll plan to meet at the church parking lot in Franklin, across from the Lazy Hiker. We'll plan to focus on the new route between the Macon County Fairgrounds and the Little Tennessee River Greenway. If we have enough folks, we'll also visit some of the trailheads in the area to clean up, restock information […]