It was just one of several encounters with bears and other wildlife Truesdale, 74, recalls over quest to hike the Appalachian Trail. But Truesdale, of 10 Brookbridge Road, did it differently than ...

Travel + Leisure, in their review of the Berkshires resort Prospect, located at 50 Prospect Lake Rd, sang the praises of visiting Egremont, Massachusetts. An outdoorsy place, the Berkshire town is ...

It was a weekday in mid-May on the Appalachian Trail, and their footsteps were ... MacKaye — a forester and regional planner from Massachusetts — in a 1921 essay. Benton MacKaye, left, and ...

Berkshire Eagle reporter Greta Jochem is providing dispatches from a trip north on the Massachusetts section of the Appalachian Trail. She hit the trail Monday, Aug. 1, at the Connecticut line. One of ...

Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It’s no easy feat – hiking the Appalachian Trail takes about five to seven months to complete. That’s about five million steps, according to ...

Franklin resident James Flannery will run a 100-mile chunk of the Appalachian Trail to raise awareness and support for mental ...

Mica Foster poses next to a dramatic tree that stands where the Appalachian Trail crests a hill outside of Dalton, Massachusetts. (Rusty Foster) Rusty Foster is partway through a planned six-month ...

New England is home to vast expanses of natural landscapes and trails, but none as beautiful as the historic Massachusetts ...