A portion of the Appalachian Trail is closed as crews fight a blaze that broke out Thursday in North Carolina and spread into Cocke County, Tennessee. The trail is closed from Davenport Gap and ...

and ending at an intersection with the Appalachian Trail at Davenport Gap. Many parts of what would become the Benton MacKaye already existed on footpaths or on old road and rail beds. But the ...

Set foot on a trail and there is a current pulling you ... Creek Ranger Station – a little more than a mile east from Davenport Gap on Tennessee 32. Section hikers – anyone not beginning ...

A heavily eroded half-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail has been on the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club's project list for at least six years.

(Photo: CAITIE MCMEKIN) Kristine Johnson and Will Simmons read writing left by hikers in the Davenport Gap trail shelter on a 4 mile hike combining the Appalachian Trail and Chestnut Branch trail ...

A man trying to hike the entire 2,180 miles of the Appalachian Trail was rescued ... Ainsworth had started this section of the trail at Davenport Gap on Monday, she said. Some higher elevations ...