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| Eastern Continental Trail |
 Since 1997, an increasing number of long distance hikers have utilized the Florida Trail as part of a route dubbed the Eastern Continental Trail by thru-hiker Nimblewill Nomad. This route strings together the Florida Trail with trails under development by the Alabama Hiking Trail Society and the Alabama Trails Association with the Georgia Pinhoti Trail and Benton MacKaye Trail to reach the Appalachian Trail. Hikers then continue north from the Appalachian Trail on the International Appalachian Trail to reach Cap Gaspé, Quebec, and more recently, Belle Isle, Labrador. This 4,000+ mile trek takes most of a year to complete.
For those who hike the Florida segment of the ECT, the Florida Trail Association provides a mile-by-mile guide of the roadwalk from Key West to the southern terminus of the Florida Trail at Loop Road in Big Cypress in our guidebook Florida Trail Companion Guide for Long Distance Hikers. Hikers walking this ECT segment are also advised to use the DeLorme Atlas to Florida for detailed maps from Key West to Loop Road, and to obtain the thru-hiker map set from the Florida Trail Association in order to hike the Florida Trail.
Eastern Continental Trail Guide, by Nimblewill Nomad
The Eastern Continental Trail: Glades Keys Connector, by Heather Sachs
ECT Thru-Hiker Journals
- Nimblewill Nomad, 1998 and 2000-2001
- Chuck "Swamp Eagle" Wilson, 2000
- Luke "Gnome" Denton, 2001
- Bonita "Mother Goose" Helton, 2001-2002
- Beth "B1" Lawson, 2002
- Jojo Smiley, 2002
- Sridhar "Spider" Ramasami, 2002
- Chris Stevens, 2003
- "Bamboo Bob" Sartini, 2003
- "Bamboo Bob" Sartini, 2004
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Created on 07/14/2006 12:24 PM by florida
Updated on 07/16/2007 09:05 AM by florida
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