How long does it take to hike the Appalachian Trail through the Smokies? The consensus is about a week. If you’re into overnight backpacking but can’t commit to seven days, there are shorter versions ...

Roaring Fork Valley’s Shayla Paradeis, known on the trail as “Kiddo,” has earned her place among long-distance hiking’s most intrepid adventurers. Paradeis has traversed thousands of miles on foot, ...

Tech on the trail fascinates McCrickard, who is studying how the use of tech is impacting our outdoor endeavors. “We want to ...

Alexis McAllister’s backpack were lined up on a table inside the Hawk Mountain education building for the inaugural Pennsylvania Appalachian Trail Hiker Kickoff event. She had a ...

Mount Katahdin in Maine, to be precise, the northernmost part of the 2,184-mile Appalachian Trail. Scott Jenkins ... from Maine to Georgia, because a northbound trip wouldn’t get them to ...

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 ...

In the last century, when I was a senior in high school, I can remember sitting in some rap session (as they were called then ...

“Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail” also features eight maps of the existing AT and its ... (The hardest spot, he said, is Mahoosuc Notch in Maine.) That’s a huge deviation from the ...

The Appalachian Trail, from Maine to Georgia, runs through the center of the park. Established in 1934 and officially dedicated by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940, the park is one of the ...