Any advise about taking the Appalachian Trail?

Horsedoc wrote:
Possibly you mean the Blue Ridge Parkway instead of Skyline Drive or the Appalachian Trailer. SD is pretty much an extension of the BRP. Cherokee NC to Front Royal VA.

While you can go directly from BRP onto Skyline Dr., they are in fact separate, controlled by two different gov't agencies, Blue Ridge Parkway is part of the National Forest Service, & is free to travel, Skyline Drive, is part of The Shenandoah National Park, which charges a fee to travel it.