About 3,000 people attempt the entire distance of the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail every year. Only 1 in 4 make it. It took ...

Repairs to the worst-hit sections of the famed trail are expected to be extraordinarily expensive and require substantial ...

Homer’s unstoppable spirit on the Triple CrownAs we moved further into Virginia, the Shenandoah was in our sights. Frank ...

“It's been my dream for a long time to teach this ecology of Appalachia course, to pass those skills on to other students and to take them to an iconic place like the Appalachian trail,” said Prather, ...

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 ...

The first time Tara Dower set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, in 2017, she had a panic attack. She felt alone and overwhelmed just eight days after setting off from the trail’s southern ...

ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL)—Every year, thousands of hikers take on the over 2,000-mile trek from Georgia to Maine on the Appalachian Trail. However, the damage caused by Hurricane Helene added an extra ...

A multi-day wildfire near the Appalachian Trail and Washington/Frederick county line was still smoldering on Thursday. Md. DNR is monitoring fire.

Gandy has put $10,000 of his own money into the project, and he’s working with Bike Texas to secure more sponsors in a grassroots effort to get the digital and print maps in place by spring ...

On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply disappears ... and are marked on a conservancy map with a bright red box.