Julie G’s Reviews > Grandma Gatewood's Walk: The Inspiring Story of the Woman Who Saved the Appalachian Trail > Status Update

She could hide in the woods. Always.

She made it to the edge of the Smoky Mountain National Park, near the line separating North Carolina and Tennessee, the following day, and she fell in love with the fields of rhododendron and laurel that seemed to be growing everywhere she looked.

She stood, finally, her canvas Keds tied tight, on May 3, 1955, atop the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, the longest continuous footpath in the world, facing the peaks on the blue-black horizon that stretched toward heaven and unfurled before her for days.