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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I ran 2,197 miles to celebrate my 50th birthday and raise money for clean water. And I kept working the whole time. I’m a ...

The Appalachian Trail stretches from Maine to Georgia, totaling more than 2,100 miles through 14 states. Shenandoah National Park's stretch of the trail predates the park and originally ran the ...

Repairs to the worst-hit sections of the famed trail are expected to be extraordinarily expensive and require substantial expertise. Months of work lie ahead.

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

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 ...

A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile ...

Since the Appalachian Trail is so heavily used ... more than 30 different groups perform work on the trail along its 14-state span. One of these is the Keystone Trails Association (KTA), which ...

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