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 ...

Repairs to the worst-hit sections of the famed trail are expected to be extraordinarily expensive and require substantial ...

Every spring, thousands of intrepid hikers prepare to test their physical and mental acumen by walking nearly 2,200 miles ...

Hurricane Helene has left parts of the Appalachian Trail in the South severely impacted, with damaged infrastructure, trail closures, and communities in need of support. In this video, Sandi Marra ...

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

It starts at Lockwood House, which overlooks what was Harper Cemetery. Originally built in 1848 as housing for the armory ...

“It's been my dream for a long time to teach this ecology of Appalachia course, to pass those skills on to other students and to take them to an iconic place like the Appalachian trail,” said Prather, ...

The Appalachian trail is closed from Lehigh Gap to Little Gap ... charge of the Mobile Command Center out of Northampton ...

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 ...

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

For hikers and bikers who’ve conquered the Triple Crown — the Pacific Crest, Appalachian and Continental Divide trails — there ... get the digital and print maps in place by spring ...

On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply disappears ... and are marked on a conservancy map with a bright red box.