I was on the Appalachian ... Trail, standing next to a sign nailed to a walnut tree on the border of Georgia and North Carolina. My 78-mile northbound walk—section by section, from Springer Moun ...

The Appalachian Trail started to come to life in 1923 but no one attempted a through-hike until 1948 due to gaps in the trail because of things like a New England hurricane and th ...

ANDOVER - The Appalachian Trail (A.T.), a 2,197.4-mile hiking-only trail, stretching from Springer Mountain in Georgia to ...

Each spring, people from around the country descend on Springer Mountain ... 3,000 hikers a year attempt the Appalachian Trail—the 2,198-mile footpath from Georgia to Maine—but only a quarter ...

One of the greatest natural treasures in the United States is the Appalachian Trail ... of the Appalachian Mountain Range, from its southern terminus at Springer Mountain, Georgia, to the northern ...

It was a weekday in mid-May on the Appalachian ... terminus in Georgia on Mount Oglethorpe or move it north to Springer Mountain, snipping off the first 37 miles of trail. By this point, it ...

The Trail Provides.” Those who attempt to traverse the 2,190-mile footpath from Georgia to Maine, commonly known as the AT, ...

Boone endurance runner John Kelly has launched an audacious attempt to break the speed record on the Appalachian Trail, a ...

Tara Dower, a 31-year-old ultrarunner and long-distance hiker born in North Carolina and based in Virginia, reached Georgia’s Springer Mountain, the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail ...

UNAKA MOUNTAIN, Tenn. — On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply ... folks start at Springer Mountain in Georgia with the goal of ...

Advertisement Bear Mountain’s section of the Appalachian Trail was the very first to be constructed along the nearly 2,200-mile path from Springer Mountain in George to Mount Katahdin in Maine.