York Hiking Club

The York Hiking Club started during the Great Depression in 1932, a group of enthusiastic folks formed an association to enjoy each others company while engaging in local, inexpensive outdoor recreational activities. Today, the club is an incorporated, non-profit, all volunteer organization with one or two activities most weeks of the year.

The Club maintains a section of the Appalachian Trail and participates in the Mason-Dixon Trail System. Its purpose is to create, promote, and encourage outdoor recreation, with emphasis on hiking.

Lets Go Hiking
The heart of the organization is the Activities Committee, which oversees the planning of the hikes, trail maintenance work trips, covered dish dinners and entertainment programs, and weekend trips. Activities are scheduled and published in a monthly newsletter, which is available in an electronic or mailed paper version. This newsletter is a calender of hiking dates for the month and some news.

Trail Crew
The Trails Committee organizes trail care trips to maintain a 7.5 mile section of the Appalachian Trail northeast of Harrisburg and a stretch of the Mason-Dixon Trail in York County. This helping not only changes the land into a trail but you can say I helped many enjoy the woods on the trail I built or fixed. Can you hold a brush and paint a blaze on a tree then be part of the crew.

The club members enjoy the use and care of a 18th Century farm house near the Susquehanna River for the staging of hikes, shared meals, and overnight stays. The property is managed by the House Committee. These activities are known as JPJ Cabin events

The Club maintains memberships in and sends representatives to the meetings of the Appalachian Trail Conference, the Keystone Trails Association, and the Mason Dixon Trails System.

Main Menu

See Also

Main Menu