Mid State Trail
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Mid State Trail
The Pennsylvania Mid State Trail of Pennsylvania, 261 mile main trail and many side trails. These are a network located in the Ridge-and-valley Appalachians of the Central Pennsylvanian Region. Known as "The Wildest Trail in Pennsylvania". The Mid State Trail is almost entirely on public land: state forests, game lands and parks.
The northern end of the trail is at the West Rim Trail on Bohen Run north of Blackwell, PA. The southern end is a junction with Green Ridge Hiking Trail in Maryland near the Pennsylvania-Maryland border.
The Mid State Trail has many views offered by its placement on narrow ridges. The Trail also provides an illusion of remoteness and solitude yet is rarely more than a mile from the nearest road.
This is where the Mid State Trail started, back in 1969. On top of Little Flat, Mr. Tom Thwaites, then an associate physics professor at Pennsylvania State University and hiking advisor to the Penn State Outing Club, breathed life into the Mid State Trail for all of us to enjoy. Today the Mid State makes the journey from Maryland to New York with only a few miles to go in northern Pennsylvania to make the connection complete.
The State College region of the Mid State Trail extends from route US22 at Water Street to route PA192 at Raymond B. Winter State Park. This part of the trail takes you across many ridge tops as well as stops in a number of Pennsylvania's natural areas. All of the vistas along the Mid State Trail are amazing, but along this section, they take your breath away.
Courtesy of PAHikes.com
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Nice picture. I know where that spot is on the Mid State Trail! There's a great place to camp not to far from there, right along the trail. The MST does give you a feeling of being in a remote area most of the time. Its kinda rocky in a lot of places, as are most trails in PA. One of the things I like about the MST is that you can take out your map and create a nice loop hike in a lot of different areas of the trail so that you can hike portions of the trail as you have time. That allows you to find places to camp before hand and get some exercise on weekends.
MM