Membership Information
Individual memberships are $20.00 per year, Family memberships are $30.00 per year, Silver memberships are $50.00 per year and Gold memberships are $75.00 per year. Participants in club activities are encouraged to apply for membership. All members are urged to participate in one of the club's many trail building and maintenance activities.
To apply for membership, send your annual dues to: Carolina Mountain Club, P.O. Box 68, Asheville, NC 28802. The following information should be provided: Name, Address, City, State, Zip, and Telephone Number and email address.
Membership includes a subscription to Let's Go, our newsletter and hiking schedule.
Hiking Activities
The purpose of the Carolina Mountain Club is to foster the enjoyment of the mountains of Western North Carolina and adjoining regions and to encourage the conservation of our natural resources. This purpose is achieved primarily through an extensive schedule of hikes and a program of trail building and maintenance.
The club conducts over 175 hikes each year. All-day hikes are scheduled for each Wednesday and Sunday, and half-day hikes are conducted each Sunday afternoon. All-day Saturday hikes are scheduled once a month. The hikes are selected from hundreds of trails in North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia-some of the most beautiful in the country.
Let's Go!. published quarterly, is the Club's news bulletin and hike schedule. Each hike is described by distance, elevation gain, location, meeting place and difficulty (from easy to strenuous).
Visitors are welcomed and invited to join the hikes. Contact with the leader by telephone is advised. Also, proper footwear, clothing, water and food are required.
Trail Work
The Carolina Mountain Club is a member of the Appalachian Trail Conference, and the Club's volunteers manage 92 miles of the Appalachian Trail from Spivey Gap in the North to Davenport Gap in the South.
The Club helped build and now maintains over 160 miles of the Mountains to Sea Trail beginning at the Black Mountain Campground in the North and ending at Heintooga Road on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
Volunteer Activities
Learn trail building. Blaze a trail. Build a bridge!
Enjoy the comradeship of a friendly trail crew for an occasional outing or work up to three days a week!
Individuals or families can adopt shelters or portions of trails to maintain!
Other Activities
The Club is a place where persons who are interested in the outdoors and conservation of nature can meet, form friendships and engage in a variety of meaningful activities.
A banquet and business meeting is held each year. Featured are short programs of interest to hikers and environmentalists. An all member weekend of hiking, camping and cooking out is offered during most Fourth of July weekends.
Whenever work on the Mountains to Sea Trail and the Appalachian Trail is current, the maintenance crews of the Club seek out neglected trails of exceptional potential for reconstruction or reclamation.
Due to the large number of hikes conducted each year, the club actively recruits and trains members as hike leaders.