{"id":614457,"date":"2026-03-30T11:38:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T15:38:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=614457"},"modified":"2026-04-08T10:29:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T14:29:39","slug":"trail-days-2026","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/event\/trail-days-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Trail Days 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"large\">Join the Appalachian Trail Conservancy in Damascus, Virginia for Trail Days 2026! The ATC&#8217;s Damascus Trail Center will host <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/cc\/trail-days-2026-4825155\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">educational programs and giveaways<\/a> throughout the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The Appalachian Trail Days Festival is the biggest event of the year in Damascus and the world\u2019s largest celebration of the Appalachian Trail and hiker culture!<\/p>\n<p>Each year in May, the town swells to an estimated 25,000 people for the festival. You can expect a grand reunion of thru-hikers past and present, over a hundred vendors of handmade goods and some of the best outdoor gear in the industry, a packed schedule of live music and events, and a large crowd of trail supporters and hiking enthusiasts.<\/p>\n<p>    <a class=\"button dark-green new new \" href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/cc\/trail-days-2026-4825155\" aria-label=\" (Opens in a new tab)\" aria-hidden=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" >ATC Program Schedule<\/a>\n     <a class=\"button text new new \" href=\"https:\/\/visitdamascus.org\/traildays\/.\" aria-label=\" (Opens in a new tab)\" aria-hidden=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" >Full Trail Days Event Schedule<\/a>\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Appalachian Trail Days Festival is the biggest event of the year in Damascus and the world\u2019s largest celebration of the Appalachian Trail and hiker culture!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":69094,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_searchwp_excluded":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[174],"class_list":["post-614457","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-community-events","cat_community-events"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/614457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/614457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614604,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/614457\/revisions\/614604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=614457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=614457"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appalachiantrail.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=614457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}