Member Breakfast with speaker Ben Jones with Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 (8:00 AM - 9:00 AM) (EST)
Description
The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is North Carolina’s state hiking trail. It stretches 1175 miles from the Great Smoky Mountains to the Outer Banks, stopping at many of our state’s most beautiful places along the way. What is the MST? The Mountains-to-Sea Trail is as diverse as North Carolina. Along the trail, you may see mountain vistas, rolling Piedmont farms, picture postcard colonial towns, weathered tobacco barns, old textile villages, country churches, rushing mountain streams, coastal swamps, hardwood and pine forests, lighthouses, sand dunes, miles of seashore, and friendly people. 725 miles of the route are on trail, and connecting backroads and an optional paddle route allow hikers to trek across the state.
Ben Jones:
Bio: Ben is from Hendersonville, NC and currently lives with his wife and two kids in Cary, NC. He has a background in environmental studies and horticultural science
but is currently pursuing his passions as a Landscape Architect and Environmental Planner for the non-profit Friends of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail. He works across the
state to plan, build, and advocate for new sections of North Carolina's original state trail. Ben is able to bring his skills in science and design to projects and communities
that normally wouldn't have access to them and in doing so is creating new recreational and educational opportunities that will far outlive him. Because the most "unfinished"
portion of the Mountains-to-Sea Trail is in Eastern NC, that is where he does the majority of his work. He is excited to use land acquisition and trail development as a tool
to help preserve these incredible landscapes and improve people's ability to access and appreciate them.
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Jones Lake State Park
4117 NC Hwy 242 N
Elizabethtown, NC 28337 United States
4117 NC Hwy 242 N
Elizabethtown, NC 28337 United States
Auditorium
Tuesday, November 19, 2024 (8:00 AM - 9:00 AM)
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