Spend time on or near Maine’s 282-mile section of the Appalachian Trail over the next couple months and you’ll likely encounter that legendary animal known as the “thru-hiker.” ...

Appalachian Trail thru-hikers, however, have so far only been limited by availability of campsites. ... A version of this article first appeared on the blog of Maine-based outdoor gear company, ...

Active as a trailmaker from the Appalachian Trail’s origins in the 1930s until his death in 1952, he pressed successfully to stretch it to Mt. Katahdin, Maine’s highest peak.

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Iowa veteran Joedy VanVelzen is more than two-thirds done hiking the Appalachian Trail: an expedition that extends nearly ...

Standing atop Maine's highest peak last week, Alex Taylor reached the end of a 2,100-mile Appalachian Trail thru-hike that started six months earlier in Georgia. He trekked through three seasons ...

Like many young people planning a thru-hike on the Appalachian Trail, from its southern terminus in Georgia to its northern end in Maine, Henry Wilber expected an idyllic experience. Instead, he ...

A northbound Appalachian Trail thru-hike starts at Springer Mountain in northern Georgia and ends on Mount Katahdin, the highest mountain in the state of Maine. The trail runs up most of the East ...

Geraldine Largay is always on many hikers' minds, and they wonder how she could have wandered off the trail and died in the woods. Andrea Deyling and her mother, Linda Deyling, have been on the ...

Rusty Foster is partway through a planned six-month hike of the Appalachian Trail from his home state of Maine south to Georgia with his 19-year-old son, Mica.

GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream ...

Maine native and author Paul Doiron, whose sixth crime novel came out this summer, uses his home state as the setting for his series featuring Mike Bowditch, a game warden who tackles all sorts of ...