COVID Guidelines for the Round Hill Appalachian Trail Festival

We ask that you NOT come to the festival if you or anyone in your household is sick or has been exposed to someone who has tested positive for COVID 19 in the past two weeks.

The Round Hill Appalachian Trail Festival is largely outdoors. Please maintain appropriate social distance from people outside your party while enjoying our talks, music and activities outside. When inside the B Chord building, please ensure that proper physical distancing is maintained, especially when in line for beverages and bathrooms. In addition, the CDC now recommends that even fully vaccinated people wear a mask in public indoor settings.

If you forget your mask, no worries. We'll have a stash on hand to keep you covered!

Toasting the Trail

Why celebrate the Appalachian Trail?

​Following 2,100 miles of mountain ridge lines, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail (A.T.) crosses 14 states, from Maine to Georgia. It's the longest and oldest marked footpath in the country—and we're lucky enough to have the A.T. right in our backyard.

In the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, the town of Round Hill, VA, sits between two A.T. centers, Bears Den to the south and Blackburn to the north. So, when town leaders learned about the Appalachian Trail Community program, it seemed a natural fit. Our inaugural festival in 2019 celebrated Round Hill's official designation as an A.T. Community, recognizing the Trail as a community asset and pledging to support ongoing Trail stewardship. 

While the 2020 event had to be canceled due to the pandemic, we hope you'll join us at the 2021 festival, where you can both celebrate the natural beauty of the A.T. and learn about protecting it. We'll have partner organizations (Appalachian Trail Conservancy, Potomac Appalachian Trail Club, Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy, Friends of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Virginia Master Naturalists, Piedmont Environmental Council) with displays about hiking, trail conservancy and more.

Listen to hiking experts and enjoy live music—plus kids' activities, food and (of course) beverages from B Chord Brewing. We'll also go "hands on" the second day of the festival. Join us on Sunday for a forest bathing hike, brush up on your trail cooking, test out a camping hammock and backpacking tents, learn to dehydrate your own food, listen to tales from the trail....and much, much more.

The HOMETOWN TEAM          

Round Hill Outdoors presents this festival, which is proudly sponsored by Round Hill,
​our  hometown community in
​Western Loudoun County, Virginia.

Our HOst: B Chord Brewing

Many thanks go to the folks at
B Chord Brewing for offering to host this festival. The brewery's farm setting in the shadow of the A.T. makes this an ideal place ​to toast the Trail.

APPALACHIAN TRAIl Community

We continue to celebrate our designation by the Appalachian Trail Conservancy as a community that protects and promotes the A.T. Our official designation ceremony kicked off the 2019 festival.

This page features art by Jill Jensen, prizewinner in the 2019 Round Hill Appalachian Trail Art Show.