Our Partners

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The Appalachian National Scenic Trail is managed through an unique "cooperative management system" involving the National Park Service, United States Forest Service, numerous other federal and state agencies, the non-profit Appalachian Trail Conservancy, and 31 volunteer-based trail-maintaining clubs.

All of these partners work together to protect and manage the Appalachian Trail and each contributes to the trail's success. Below is a fairly thorough list of A.T. partners, along with hyperlinks to many of their webpages.

Federal Agencies

National Park Service - Appalachian NST, Delaware Water Gap NRA, Harpers Ferry NHP, C&O Canal NHP, Shenandoah NP, Blue Ridge Parkway NP and Great Smoky Mountains NP

United States Forest Service - White Mountain NF, Green Mountain NF, George Washington NF, Jefferson NF, Cherokee NF, Pisgah NF, Nantahala NF and Chatahochee NF

United States Fish & Wildlife Service - Wallkill NWR and Cherry Valley NWR

Smithsonian Institute - Conservation Biology Institute

Tennessee Valley Authority - Watuaga Dam and Fontana Dam

State Partners

Maine: Baxter State Park, Nahmakanta Lake, The Hermitage Nature Preserve, Bald Mountain Pond, Bigelow Preserve, Grafton Notch State Park

New Hampshire: Benton State Forest, Lead Mine State Park, Mount Washington State Park, Crawford Notch State Park, Franconia Notch State Park, Sentenial State Forest

Vermont: Gifford Woods State Park, Kent Pond, Calvin Coolidge State Forest, Clarendon Gorge

Massachusetts: Clarksburg State Forest, Mount Greylock State Reservation, October Mountain State Forest, Beartown State Forest, East Mountain State Forest, Mt. Everett State Reservation, Arthur Wharton Swann State Forest

Connecticut: Housatonic State Forest, Housatonic Meadows State Park, Mohawk State Forest, Macedonia Brook State Park, Ibberson Conservation Area

New York: Depot Hill State Forest, Clarence Fahnestock Memorial State Park, Hudson Highlands State Park, Bear Mountain-Harriman State Park

New Jersey: Abram S. Hewitt State Forest, Wawayanda State Park, High Point State Park, Stokes State Forest, Worthington State Forest, Dunfield Creek

Pennsylvania: Weiser State Forest, Pennsylvania State Game Lands, Swatara State Park, Pine Grove Furnace State Park, Michaux State Forest, Caledonia State Park

Maryland: South Mountain State Park, Greenbrier State Park, Washington Monument State Park, Gathland State Park

Virginia: Sky Meadows State Park, G.Richard Thompson State Wildlife Management Area, Grayson Highlands State Park

Georgia: Vogel State Park, Amicalola Falls State Park

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy, established in 1925, is a national not-for-profit corporation that is both a confederation of the 31 local organizations with assignments to maintain the Appalachian Trail and a membership organization with support from all 50 states and more than 15 other countries. Under agreements that date back to the 1930s, buttressed by federal legislation in 1968 and 1978, ATC leads a cooperative-management system for the Trail that equals the National Park Service and USDS Forest Service at national and regional levels.