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Cherokee National Forest
Benton MacKaye Trail
275 miles long starting at the head of the AT and enters the
Cherokee
National Forest
across
Big
Frog
Mountain
. Access the trail at Forest Service 221, Forest Service 45, Thunder Rock Campground, and Hwy 64 across from TVA Ocoee Powerhouse No. 3. Thirty miles of the Trail are located in
Polk
County
and marked with white diamonds except in wilderness areas. For more information see Wilderness Trails of Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest by Harvey Broom Group of the TN Chapter of the Sierra Club and Hiking the Benton MacKaye Trail by Tim Homan.
For more information, please contact:
BMTA (a non-profit organization)
P.O. Box 53271
Atlants, GA 30355-1271
http://www.BMTA.org
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