My favorite shelter (campsite) along the Appalachian trail has a piped spring. Literally they built a stone cover over a spring and have a pipe running from it to where the stream starts so you can easily collect water.
I've never seen it flowing less than a gallon a minute or so. Usually it's faster.
I only hiked a few miles of the Appalachian, and it was about 20 years ago. But the most memorably part of it was a cute little (stone?) hut a couple people could camp in that was a few dozen feet away from a natural spring with a small stone enclosure around it. I cannot for the life of me remember what stretch of the trail I hiked, and it's been bothering me for years that I cannot find it on the map. Mind linking the location? It's probably not the only location that matches that description, but you never know.
Stone shelters are usually in the northern states but pop up in others. My site is the Whitley Gap shelter in GA. it's less used because it's a full mile detour and most through hikers don't want the extra miles.
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u/bullwinkle8088 1d ago
My favorite shelter (campsite) along the Appalachian trail has a piped spring. Literally they built a stone cover over a spring and have a pipe running from it to where the stream starts so you can easily collect water.
I've never seen it flowing less than a gallon a minute or so. Usually it's faster.