Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire and Maine. It’s no easy feat – hiking the Appalachian Trail takes about five to seven months to ...

Photo by Brown W Cannon III Welcome to Two Days Away, our series featuring weekend-long itineraries within a five-hour drive ...

The Appalachian Trail, also known as the AT, promotes the idea of connecting with nature in a fast-paced world. The Maryland stamp highlights the fall foliage in the Hagerstown Valley section of ...

A backpacker pauses to take in fall colors and a vista of the Maryland landscape along the Appalachian Trail in late October. (Kevin Thomas) ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail can be done in about 5 million steps. Here's how long the trail is in miles and how many months it would take to hike.

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting. So far this ...

Could you eat this much ice cream after walking 1,100 miles? Some Appalachian Trail hikers try So far this year, about 50 thru-hikers have finished the challenge.

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting ...

Ashton Frech needed to clear her head. With the pressures of studying at the University of Maryland and everything else that life was throwing at her, the Mechanicsville resident stepped ...

A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile ...

DAMASCUS, Va. (WJHL) – The 36th annual Appalachian Trail Days festival kicked off in Damascus, Virginia with thousands of people expected to attend. The festival is a celebration of hiking fo… ...