The Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s Festival and Biennial, a week of celebrating and learning about the 2,170-mile Appalachian Trail, will be held July 17-24 at Vermont’s Castleton State College.

Events include more than 60 guided hikes, workshops on subjects from hiking the AT to natural history to LNT, trail work, exhibits, evening speakers and entertainment, and a keynote speech and preview by Dayton Duncan, co-producer and writer of the upcoming Ken Burns/Florentine Films series, “The National Parks: America's Best Idea.”

Register or see the full schedule of events at www.vermont2009.org