The North Carolina section offers many of the Appalachian Trail's highest peaks, several above 6,000 feet. Hiking enthusiasts can set out on a multiday or weeklong journey (keep in mind that you ...

David Huff, Carolina Mountain Club Some recovery work in the North Carolina mountains ... AT are open? The Appalachian Trail Conservancy regularly updates its interactive map showing the status ...

Tennessee, North Carolina ... section. Hikers also pass through—literally—Mountain Crossings Outfitter, a store at Neels Gap. Laurie Potteiger, information services manager for the Appalachian ...

The U.S. Forest Service has established a temporary overnight camping ban along the Appalachian Trail from Tanyard Gap in Hot Springs, about an hour north of Asheville, North Carolina, to Deep Gap ...

The U.S. Forest Service has established a temporary overnight camping ban in nearly a 7-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail along the North Carolina-Tennessee border from Tanyard Gap to Deep Gap ...

Hiking the Appalachian ... section along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line in Mitchell County.) Mike Crooks, left, a rafting guide with Wahoo’s Adventures, prepares to ferry Appalachian ...

Developers completed the first section in 1923 and fully connected the trail by 1937. A northbound Appalachian Trail ... 14 states in total – Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains ... (An alternative route takes hikers around a closed section along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line in Mitchell County.) ...