Great Eastern Trail http://www.greateasterntrail.net has a much higher % of trail in Federally defined Appalachia (as in, basically all of it, except for portions on the edges of the Virginia Shenandoah Valley counties that opted out) than the Appalachian Trail does. Including some beautiful areas of KY, and a lot more of WVa. Its New York State county is still Appalachia (which, if you go there, you will believe).