This is a one-of-a-kind, uninterrupted historic route from the waterfront of the Nation's Capital to the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah Rivers at Harpers Ferry - a National Historical Park at the tri-state area of West Virginia, Maryland, and Virginia. This route starts at the revitalized DC Wharf and begins through the monuments of Washington, DC and Georgetown Waterfront.

This route connects the contiguous summits of the Plott Balsam Range that are accessible to the public via trail.  Those summits being Blackrock Mountain, Yellow Face Mountain, Waterrock Knob, Browning Knob, Mount Lyn Lowry, and Plott Balsam Mountain.  Note that the Plott Balsam Range continues to the southwest, but Pinnacle Bald and Perry Top are trail-less.  Many people use the latter part of this trail to cover 4 of the 40 peaks for The South Beyond 6k Challenge (SB6K).  By linking 4 miles to the start, I extended the route to Pinnacle Park in Sylva, making for an almost 8k in vert in le