Quilt trail

Donna Sue Groves wanted to honor her mother, Maxine, a noted quilter, with a painted quilt square on the family's barn in Manchester, Ohio.

An emerging concept, a U.S. national quilt trail that first spread across Ohio now includes barn quilts in Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.

The Alabama Barn Quilt Trail in Lauderdale County plans to expand across the entire state.

On July 8, 2019 residents of Mount Ulla installed the largest community barn quilt in the United States on the wall of a local store, West Rowan Farm, Home & Garden.

[6][7] Appalachian Resource Conservation & Development maintains the online quilt trail database for the six-county region of Northeast Tennessee.

Two barn quilts on the U.S. 23 Country Music Highway Museum in Paintsville, Kentucky on the U.S. 23 Quilt Trail.
A man paints a barn quilt at a studio in Hayesville, North Carolina
Mount Ulla Barn Quilt, the largest community barn quilt in the United States as of 2019
Sunrise and Sunset barn quilt in Richmond, Utah