The Appalachian Trail started to come to life in 1923 but no one attempted a through-hike until 1948 due to gaps in the trail ...

I was on the Appalachian ... Trail, standing next to a sign nailed to a walnut tree on the border of Georgia and North Carolina. My 78-mile northbound walk—section by section, from Springer Moun ...

ANDOVER - The Appalachian Trail (A.T.), a 2,197.4-mile hiking-only trail, stretching from Springer Mountain in Georgia to ...

It was a weekday in mid-May on the Appalachian ... terminus in Georgia on Mount Oglethorpe or move it north to Springer Mountain, snipping off the first 37 miles of trail. By this point, it ...

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 ...

To most people, the Eckville shelter looks like an old tool shed, a throwback to our grandparents’ garages of yesteryear. For decades, though, this small building just off the Appalachian Trail in ...

runs for 280 miles from Springer Mountain in the North Georgia mountains into Tennessee and North Carolina. It is considered a sister trail to southern portions of the better known Appalachian ...

Stretching more than 2,190 miles across 14 different states, the Appalachian Trail may be the best ... southernmost trailhead located on Springer Mountain in Georgia. That's because the ...

Tara Dower, a 31-year-old ultrarunner and long-distance hiker born in North Carolina and based in Virginia, reached Georgia’s Springer Mountain, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail ...

UNAKA MOUNTAIN, Tenn. — On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply ... folks start at Springer Mountain in Georgia with the goal of ...

Advertisement Bear Mountain’s section of the Appalachian Trail was the very first to be constructed along the nearly 2,200-mile path from Springer Mountain in George to Mount Katahdin in Maine.