Outdoors Clubs and Organizations
Joining an outdoor-related club is a great way to meet people and experience places you may not have found on your own. Most clubs welcome visitors on trips or at their meetings. Check one out near you!
Tidewater Appalachian Trail Club (TATC)
Based in the Hampton Roads, Virginia area (Norfolk, Virginia Beach, etc.) the TATC is an active club which maintains many miles of trails locally and in the Blue Ridge Mountains (including the AT) and offers backpacking, hiking, camping, and other outdoors-oriented trips. They have a diverse membership of over 500 people (including me, when I lived in Virginia Beach).
Potomac Appalachian Trail Club
A large trail club in the Washington, D.C. area. Good info on trails throughout the mid-Atlantic.
Dedicated to the promotion of hiking, establishing, protecting and maintaining America's trails.
A New England trail club, probably the largest on the East Coast. They focus on New Hampshire, but have chapters up and down the East Coast. Details of their shuttle routes and info on AMC huts. Weather reports for the White Mountains, places to stay, maps and photos.
The Keystone Trails Association of Pennsylvania. Guide to PA trails, maps, hiking alerts and KTA member organizations.
Not an outdoors club, so to speak, but Scouting is what got me into the outdoors in the first place. They still do a good job getting kids outside.
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