By Todd Forrest
The U.S. Forest Service, in partnership with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy and the Georgia Appalachian Trail Club, has completed a reroute of the Byron Herbert Reece Trail, so named years ago for the beloved poet, farmer and native son of Union County.
Stakeholders celebrated the occasion with a public ribbon-cutting ceremony held on Saturday, June 6, at the trailhead on Blood Mountain in the Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest, just north of Neel’s Gap off the Gainesville Highway.