About 3,000 people attempt the entire distance of the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail every year. Only 1 in 4 make it. It took ...

A northbound Appalachian Trail thru-hike starts at Springer Mountain in northern Georgia and ends on Mount Katahdin, the highest mountain in the state of Maine. The trail runs up most of the East ...

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

Megan Hessenberger will hike 101 miles in honor of her great-grandmother, who founded the National Humane Education Society.

The first time Tara Dower set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail ... The roughly 2,200-mile trail, which spans more than a dozen states, usually takes around half a year to complete.

A multi-day wildfire near the Appalachian Trail and Washington/Frederick county line was still smoldering on Thursday. Md. DNR is monitoring fire.

Ballard proposed what became the Appalachian Trailway Agreement among ATC, NPS, the U.S. Forest Service and the 13 states through which the Trail passes. In that Agreement, he proposed “an Appal ...

Homer’s unstoppable spirit on the Triple CrownAs we moved further into Virginia, the Shenandoah was in our sights. Frank ...