At this little country store, hikers take on the half-gallon challenge. Those who finish are awarded a commemorative wooden ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting. So ...

Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down ...

South Middleton Township officials got a look Thursday at what the former Appalachian Trail Conference Mid-Atlantic office building could be. The township took ownership of the green-roofed ...

Elizabeth Woodward overlooks the Shenandoah Valley on her hike of the full Appalachian Trail. (Elizabeth Woodward ... I wanted to start and end my journey in my home state of Virginia,” Woodward ...

James Flannery, of Franklin, is preparing for a 100-mile run on part of the Appalachian Trail to raise awareness and support for mental health. “The goal for me is to make it end to end ...

Franklin resident James Flannery will run 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail to raise money for mental ... “The goal for me is to make it end to end, raise money for SAFE, and have a good ...