Welcome to the AMC's annual trail sign auction! Every year the AMC's White Mountain Trail Crew replaces weathered or out-of-date trail signs with new ones. The old signs are collector's items, having guided thousands of visitors for many years along celebrated paths throughout the Whites. All proceeds from the auction will directly support AMC's trail maintenance efforts and, for the 2011 auction in particular, trail cleanup and repair work following Tropical Storm Irene.

This year’s auction has ended. Please check back for next year’s auction, which will begin in late November 2012

In the meantime, check out which signs were auctioned off in 2011:

Osseo Trail Sign - This sign spent a relatively sheltered life at the junction of the Lincoln Woods Trail and the Osseo Trail just outside the Pemigewasset Wilderness.

Goose Eye Trail Sign - Since 1985 this sign has lived at the start of the Goose Eye Trail, at the junction with the Carlo Col Trail, and served as a gateway to the Mahoosucs.

Tuckerman Crossover Trail Sign - This humble little plank spent several long hard years living amid diapensia and mountain sandwort above treeline at the Tuckerman Junction. When not covered with rime ice or befuddled in fog, this sign directed countless numbers of hikers along the Tuckerman Crossover toward the Southside Trail and Lakes of the Clouds Hut.

Cascade Brook Trail Sign - The only sign in this year’s auction to bear the AT logo, the Cascade Brook Trail sign spent many years at the Cascade Brook trailhead, which is also where the AT crosses Rt. 93 at Whitehouse Bridge.

Ethan Pond Trail Sign - This sign had the not-so-difficult task of spending its useful life in the heart of the Zealand Valley along the Appalachian Trail, at the junction of the Zeacliff Trail and the Ethan Pond Trail.

Royce Trail Sign - While this sign had a busy life directing hikers to and from Burnt Mill Brook Trail, West Royce, Laughing Lion Trail, and the Brickett Place on Rt. 113, this one seems especially deserving of a comfortable retirement.