I'm trying to plan a summer trip, either in June of July, around 200 miles. Does anyone have suggestions of where I should go?

Maybe too far west, but Arkansas has two 200+ mile national scenic trails:

The Ouachita Trail: http://friendsot.org/

The Ozark Highlands Trail: http://ozarkhighlandstrail.com/

You could hike alot of different trails in the Smokey Mountains.

There is the Northville-Placid Trail. From Lake Placid you could do the West Branch of the Ausable River, and down.
Then you could do a loop from Seventh Lake->Shallow Lake->Eighth Lake
The NCT is not completely mapped through the ADK's, but between Rome, NY and Boonville, There is the Mohawk River, Delta Lake->Mohawk River and up RT 46 along Lansing Kill. About a days hike will then put you on the Moose River or Black River.
Lots of water in the ADK's, I usually bring a rod up there.

Edited by jamesdmarco on 11/29/2012 19:35:59 MST.

The FLT seems to be exactly what I was looking for, granted I'll do less than half of the 585 miles (I think that number is right...)

Yeah, the FLT is OK. I have done large sections of it between the Catskills and Olean. Most will know it as the North Country Trail(NCT), though. I really don't care for it, generally...way to much road walking and the fishing is not real good. Anyway, it is a good hiking trail between the towns, generaly.

Hmm, I'll take that as a recommendation to avoid it. Thanks.

You can easily hike hundreds of miles around the Catskills or the Adirondacks and cross many good fishing spots.

There are some good fishing on the FLT, but overall probably doesn't compare to the more mountainous areas of NY, NJ, PA, CT, ...