Footprints for Peace begins annual walk to I Love Mountains Day

On Friday, more than a dozen people met in Prestonsburg and began a two-week walk to Frankfort, where they will join more than a thousand other people at I Love Mountains Day.

The Walk for a Sustainable Future, organized by Footprints for Peace, calls attention to the destruction created by mountaintop removal coal mining in Kentucky and the need to begin a just transition to a more diverse, sustainable, and thriving economy in the mountains.

Walkers average between thirteen and sixteen miles each day, traveling the back roads through Kentucky and staying in people’s homes and community churches along the way.

You can keep up with the walkers and get updates from the road at footprintsforpeace.org. Or you can hear more about their journey from the stage at the river this year at I Love Mountains Day.