According to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, camping is also allowed near most of the 260 shelters along the Trail.

You can drive or hike the famed Appalachian Trail, ... /4 mile path along the Housatonic River in the town of Falls Village. ... gateway to the Smoky Mountains and is set right along the trail.

GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to ...