After some organizational meetings, flagging began on the trail from Peters Mountain to the Salt Sulphur Springs Turnpike in August 1973.
Also in 1974, this time in July, the original routing and blaze color for the Allegheny Trail were selected.
[4] This section had to be rerouted around the Army National Guard firing range at Camp Dawson.
[4] The original route in the 1983 first edition hiking guide ran for 88.9 miles from the same starting point to the east side of the Greenbrier River in Cass, West Virginia.
This section of trail was partially temporarily rerouted to Beaver Lick mountain road in January, 2022 to navigate around a logging project near the dock that may take up to three years.
[6] The original routing does not provide a distance in miles, as section four was still in development when the first edition hiking guide was written in 1983.
[4] The southern subsection of section four is a 21.02 mile hike from the south trailhead at hanging rock to the southern terminus of the Alleghany Trail at the junction with the Appalachian trail on Peters Mountain, at the West Virginia – Virginia border.