Make Your Education an Adventure of a Lifetime

The Semester-A-Trail Program is a unique opportunity for students who seek a learning experience that goes well beyond the classroom. Students in the program earn college credit while attempting a thru-hike or long section hike of the Appalachian Trail. The experience offers students a synthesis of academic learning and outdoor adventure in an intensive, goal-oriented journey, immersing students in real-world competencies and challenges that build skills that last a lifetime.

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“The Semester-A-Trail provides and excellent opportunity for meshing academic learning with a big experiential journey, a very physical journey that connects learning and growth to life.” — Jim Harrison.

The Semester-A-Trail Program offers students the opportunity to build independent studies and projects with broadened field-based implications.