NC/TN – Shelter Removal – Walnut Mtn, 3/12/25
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Update
03/12/2025
Starting tomorrow, volunteers with the Carolina Mountain Club will begin dismantling and removing the Walnut Mountain Shelter (NOBO mile 262.1). The privy and bear cables will also be removed. The site will remain open for tenting. ATC staff will be onsite to assist with the project as well.
Hikers should stay out of the immediate construction zone while the project takes place.
The shelter is being removed due to poor original placement and in an effort to create more sustainable campsites along the Appalachian Trail (A.T.). The Club plans to reconstruct the shelter as a historical exhibit in Hot Springs, NC in the future.
Walnut Mountain Shelter to be removed. Photo by Carolina Mountain Club.