Cherokee Foothills Trail, N. & S. Carolina
Matt Kirk has the fastest time, 16:42, set March 5, 2005.
Here's what GORP says about
the 76-mile long Cherokee Foothills Trail:
"The Foothills Trail may be the most unsung, underused, and underrated long trail in the Southeast
It traverses the Cherokee Foothills of the Southern Appalachians in North and South Carolina, through
state parks, national forests, and state-owned preserves. In these lands are high ridgelines, wild and
scenic rivers, deep rock gorges, wilderness areas, mountain lakes, clear trout streams, towering forests,
and a number of incredible waterfalls stretching from one end of the path to the other. There are so many
cascades along the Foothills Trail that I wonder why they didn't name it the Waterfall Trail."
-- Johnny Molloy, on GORP
On March 5, 2005, Matt Kirk, Byron Backer and John Dove set out to establish a
speed mark on the Foothills Trail. Matt finished the trail in at time of 16:52.
His brief report is here.
Matt repeated the trail on March 15, 2008, completing in 18:37, as reported on
his blog.