Susquehanna Appalachian Trail Club

Susquehanna Appalachian Trail Club offers an extensive schedule of activities including scores of group hikes each year with many social and natural exploration possibilities, and numerous trail work outings building our trails and a special sense of camaraderie at the same time!

SATC is one of thirty-one groups that maintain part of the Appalachian Trail, a footpath following the crest of the Appalachian Mountains for over 2,180 miles from Maine to Georgia.  SATC is a Pennsylvania incorporated 501(c)3 charitable not-for-profit organization.  SATC volunteers contribute well over a thousand hours each year toward Trailthe care and preservation of this and other footpaths in Central Pennsylvania.

SATC invites you to join in exploring and learning about nature on scheduled group hikes, in caring for our footpaths, and in helping to preserve and conserve our trail lands.  Scheduled hikes and trail care outings are open to everyone - membership, while welcome, is not required.

SATC invites you to see what we have done and are doing to preserve, and to join us on the footpaths exploring, our local landscapes around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. 


What's new?

  • Susquehanna Appalachian Trail Club Presidents Report, 2008-2012
    Click here to read the Presidents Report (PDF) from SATC President Karen Balaban.


  • Pennsylvania Hiking Week, May 23rd through June 3rdPA Hiking Week
    DCNR has once again teamed up with the Keystone Trails Association (KTA) to offer nearly 100 organized hikes and walks available throughout Pennsylvania during the nine-day event.  All of the scheduled hikes have leaders.  Most hikes are on the two weekends of the event, but several weekday and evening hikes also are offered.  Most hikes will take place in state parks and state forests, with some hikes scheduled on the Appalachian Trail, in Allegheny National Forest, and in city and community parks.   View hiking week events.


  • National Trails Day and Duncannon Appalachian Trail Community Designation celebration, June 2nd AT Community
    National Trails Day 2012 is coming up on June 2nd!  National Trails Day® is a celebration of trails that evolved from the report of President Ronald Reagan's President's Commission on Americans Outdoors. 

    America's 200,000 miles of trails allow us access to the natural world for recreation, education, exploration, solitude, inspiration, and much more. Trails take us to good physical and mental health by providing us with a chance to breathe fresh air, get our hearts pumping, and escape from our stresses.

    Susquehanna Appalachian Trail Club recently supported the Borough of Duncannon, PA's application for the Appalachian Trail Community program and the designation event is being held on June 2nd to coincide with National Trails Day.  SATC is leading two hikes that morning - see SATC hike schedule or check out a full list of hikes co-inciding with the designation day.
  • Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Banquet, June 8th - Inductees to Receive Hand-Carved Hiking Sticks
    A.T. MuseumLike the first class of inductees into the Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame, this year's inductees will receive hiking sticks hand carved by Tennessee woodsman John Beaudet.  Read the recent press release here (word document). Hall of Fame nominees include pioneers who conceived of and developed the trail; those who organized or directed major trail organizations like the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the Appalachian Trail; hikers who have made significant accomplishments, and other persons who have enriched the culture or community of the Appalachian Trail by their association with it.

    Mark Wenger, new Executive Director of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, will be the featured speaker at the June 8th event.  At 6pm, reception will precede the dinner at 7 pm.  The cost of the reception and and dinner is $30 for museum members and $40 for others.  Complete information is available here.


Earth Poem

This earth we know.

This earth does not belong to us; we belong to the earth.

This we know.

All things are connected like the blood which unites one family.

All things are connected.

~ Chief Seattle


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