This collection is unprocessed. To view a basic box inventory and access the collection, please email speccoll@gmu.edu.

The records of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) span the entire history of the trail, from before the foundation of the Appalachian Trail Conference in the 1920s to 2021. The records include material created by individuals responsible for the creation of the trail and early hikers (such as Benton MacKaye, Myron Avery, George Masa, and Orville Wright Crowder), including maps, correspondence, and photographs. There are extensive administrative records and files kept by ATC leaders, mostly from the 1960s through the 2010s, such as Bob Proudman, Dave Startzell, Ray Hunt, Jean Cashin, Margaret Drummond, Les Holmes, Brian B. King, and others. These include correspondence, land management records, biennial conference meeting files, trail incident records, board of managers files, files on ATC publications, thru-hiker (2000-miler) applications, and more. There are also chronological files, press clippings, scrapbooks, memorabilia, maps, photographs, shelter logs, audiovisual material (slides, VHS, cassette, and reel-to-reel tape), signs, and framed items from throughout the ATC's history.