The AMC combines hiking, camping, and more with dedication to education and nature conservation.

AMC's outdoor club activities offer members a world of recreational enjoyment while promoting the organization's mission of outdoor education, conservation, and volunteerism. We promote the protection, enjoyment, and wise use of the mountains, rivers, and hiking trails of the Appalachian region, believing that the mountains and rivers have an intrinsic worth at the same time that they provide recreational opportunity, spiritual renewal, and economic and ecological health for the region.

Chapter activities — an essential part of the AMC experience.

The AMC offers twelve regional chapters: the Berkshire, Boston, Connecticut, Delaware Valley, Maine, Mohawk Hudson, Narragansett, New Hampshire, New York/North Jersey, Southeastern Massachusetts, Washington, DC, and Worchester chapters. Each chapter of AMC's outdoor club offers an abundance of local volunteer-guided recreational activities and educational programs. They also provide an opportunity to participate in volunteer work such as trail maintenance, research, and political activism, while introducing you to a community of like-minded citizens dedicated to the goals of the AMC.

Our chapters can get you started enjoying outdoors activities including local walks, day hikes, bicycling, sailing, rock climbing, and canoeing and kayaking. Joining a chapter is a great way to learn to backpack, use a map and compass, plan a overnight kayaking trip, or cross-country ski or snowshoe for the first time.

A major offering of the AMC outdoor club is its creation of numerous lodging destinations, ranging from comfortable mountain lodges complete with hot and cold running water, shared or private rooms, delicious dinner and breakfast, and retail shops to cabins, campgrounds, and campsites offering tent platforms, with and without shelter. Carefully placed and maintained mountain huts, dotting the Appalachian Trail a day's hike from one another, offer dinner and breakfast and a comfortable bunk during their full-service season.

Take advantage of the many benefits of membership in the AMC now.

a href="http://www.outdoors.org/membership/index.cfm"> Join the Appalachian Mountain Club now and take advantage of the many benefits of membership: discounts on guided trips, outdoor education programs, and AMC lodging, as well as access to a wealth of printed and online materials. Members receive AMC Outdoors, our membership magazine, which includes information on hundreds of monthly outdoor trips as well as recommendations for self-planned hikes and paddling trips. Each member also has access to AMC chapter activities, workshops, and volunteer activities.

But perhaps the most valuable benefit of AMC's outdoor club is the new friendships to be made with people who, like you, wish to enjoy the natural world while working hard to protect and maintain it.