Nantahala Brewing supports the A.T.
Nantahala Brewing Company in Bryson City celebrated the Christmas season with a generous donation to Friends of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to support the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Smokies Ridgerunner program.
The Ridgerunner program, around for more than 15 years, recruits caretakers to hike and camp along high-use sections of the A.T. Friends of the Smokies gives $37,000 toward the program annually. Ridgerunners educate hikers and backpackers, check backcountry permits and steward the trail by picking up litter and managing the privies. They work on more than 71 miles of the A.T. in the national park.
This donation is just one more proof of Nantahala Brewing’s commitment to the trail. Since 2012, Nantahala Brewing has donated a portion of the sales of its limited release Trail Magic Ales, named for the random acts of kindness hikers encounter along the A.T.
