The Boundary Program’s purpose is to protect the public’s investment in the lands that surround the Appalachian Trail. To ensure the continued protection of the Trail corridor, volunteers from A.T. maintaining clubs work with the ATC to monitor and maintain more than 1,500 miles of the corridor’s exterior boundary, from Tennessee to Maine.
To monitor, volunteers walk the tracts and boundary lines of lands acquired for the Trail and assess them to ensure their continued conservation. To maintain, volunteers repaint Blazes and brush out the line, keeping it well-marked and easy for our neighbors to identify.