Conceived by Benton MacKaye 100 years ago, the path of the Appalachian Trail has evolved and endured. The southern beginning of the trail was not originally at Georgia's Springer Mountain ...

“I’m going to guess there have been 1,500 to 2,000 modifications to the trail’s route, and most of them are so small that you wouldn’t be able to really see it on a screen,” said Mills ...

Stretching from Georgia to Maine, the most widely known hiking trail in the U.S. has nearly 90 miles of path a short drive away in the Palisades and Hudson Valley.

Appalachian Trail in Georgia: Dicks Creek Gap. At Dicks Creek trailhead off US-76 near Hiawasee, hikers can choose between a shorter 4-mile loop or a more challenging 11-mile trek.

Each year, about 3 million people hike part of the Appalachian Trail. But if you add up every person who has officially completed it, that number is only 20,000 — dating all the way back to 1936 ...

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

If tourism officials in Alabama had their way, the southern end of the Maine-to Georgia Appalachian Trail would be in their state. Their hopes are bound up in a natural path that connects the ...

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 Mountain ...

A York woman who wanted to show her daughters that it's never to late to make a change quit her job and walked the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Christy Millek says she went through ...