When you decide to hike the daunting Appalachian Trail, the best time of year to start and end your hike depends on what ...

Thru-hikers will start rolling into Katahdin soon with deep tans, muscular legs, beat-up backpacks, distinct odors, and a language all their own.

There are 165,000 white blazes marking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, White-blazers are purists who follow every blaze along the route. Carey Kish photo Somewhere around 165,000 2×6 ...

Kimberly “Sonflower” Jacko of Mansfield recently completed the classic 2,100-plus mile Appalachian Trail, starting at the ...

The Appalachian Trail spans 2,194 miles across 14 states along the East Coast of the U.S. Most experienced hikers begin their ...

In addition to Smarts Mountain, the Appalachian Trail covers most of the Presidential Range, offering more miles above ...

Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian Trail (AT) is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world. It’s 2,197 ...

They started in Maine and are headed to Georgia. They made it to the halfway point this week and stopped to celebrate. There's a tradition on the trail to try and eat a half gallon of ice cream in ...

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 ...

This year, 2,279 hikers registered their trips in person at Basecamp; more than 93.5 percent of those were from the U.S., hailing from 49 out of the 50 states (all but Idaho are represented).