What we’re about
The primary purpose of this group is to support a community of volunteers focused on building, enhancing and maintaining North Carolina's premier hiking trail, the Mountains-to-Sea Trail!
The Mountains-to-Sea Trail, stretches 1,175 miles from Clingmans Dome State Park in the Great Smoky Mountains to Jockey's Ridge State Park on the Outer Banks. The trail showcases our state's diverse landscape and culture: mountain vistas, rolling Piedmont farms, picture-postcard colonial towns, weathered tobacco barns, old textile villages, country churches, rushing mountain streams, coastal swamps, hardwood and pine forests, lighthouses, sand dunes and miles of seashore.
In addition to joining us on Meetup, where we post numerous MST workdays, we also hope you'll visit the FMST website ([ https://www.mountainstoseatrail.org](http://www.ncmst.org)) to learn more about this wonderful backyard resource and ask that you consider becoming a Friend of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail at:
https://mountainstoseatrail.org//get-involved/become-a-member/
If you'd like to help build and maintain the trail and don't see a workday in your area posted on this Meetup group site, FMST has a workday going on somewhere in the state almost every weekend of the year and on some weekdays too. For more information contact the trail crew leader in your vicinity. You can find a list of crew leaders at:
https://mountainstoseatrail.org/get-involved/trail-workdays/
Come help enhance and give back to hiking in North Carolina by helping build, enhance and maintain the Mountains-to-Sea Trail!
Upcoming events
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First Day Hike and Cleanup
Red Mill Rd. by Ellerbe Creek to Parking area at end of E. Geer St., Red Mill Rd. by Ellerbe Creek, Durham, NC, USJoin MST volunteers for a First Day Hike and a cleanup along Falls Lake and Ellerbe Creek. Learn about the conservation and restoration efforts of the Ellerbe Creek Watershed Association as we work alongside each other to clean up a critical area along the shoreline. We will hike about a half-mile to the worksite to collect debris. We will hear from Ellerbe Creek volunteers about the history of stormwater litter deposited here and the efforts being taken to clean it up.
Dress for the weather. Long pants, long sleeves, and closed-toe shoes are recommended. Bring water and maybe a small day pack to carry. We provide gloves, grabbers, bags, and buckets to use during the cleanup.13 attendees
Past events
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