Blue Ridge Hiking Company

Blue Ridge Hiking Company is a hiking and backpacking guide service based in Asheville. According to its website, it aims to connect people curious about the outdoors with Southern Appalachia through personalized guided hikes and backpacking trips. Its site lists day hikes, overnight trips, workshops, group travel and gear rentals. The company says it guides under commercial special use permits in areas including Pisgah National Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the Blue Ridge Parkway, DuPont State Forest and Mt. Mitchell State Park, and that its guides are certified in Wilderness First Aid or higher and CPR. It also runs a bunkhouse in Hot Springs, NC, for hikers, backpackers and trail runners along the Appalachian Trail.