Trails Help Towns

The Appalachian Trail is mentioned in an article by Lois Carol Wheatley in the Bristol (VA) Herald Courier and Johnson City (TN) TriCities.com web site. It's titled "Blazing a path" and appeared on 10 May 2007.

Speaking of the ways that recreation trails can bring economic well-being to depressed areas, she writes that

"There can be no better example than Damascus, which calls itself “Trail Town, USA” and boasts that it sits at the crossroads of the Appalachian Trail, the Virginia Creeper Trail, the Trans-American National Bicycle Trail, the Iron Mountain Trail, the Daniel Boone Trail, the Crooked Road Musical Heritage Trail and Virginia’s Birding and Wildlife Trail."