This article originally appeared on Backpacker Whether you have a long weekend or just a long day, you can get your Appalachian Trail fix without quitting your job. The AT is replete with dayhikes ...

Bear Mountain’s section of the Appalachian Trail was the very first to be constructed along the nearly 2,200-mile path from Springer Mountain in George to Mount Katahdin in Maine. From Bear ...

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.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail can be done in about 5 million steps. Here's how long the trail is in miles and how many months it would take to hike.

The Appalachian Trail is renowned as the longest hiking trail in the world, and around 78 of the trail's 2,200 miles are in the state of Georgia. Thru-hikers have been testing their skills on ...

The Appalachian Trail doesn’t look like a mountain climb, but it adds up. By the time a hiker reaches Maine, they’ve gained and lost more than 500,000 feet of elevation.

The windy mountain temperatures were ranging from 37 to 49 degrees. “It hasn’t hit me yet,” Cross said of the magnitude of taking on the Appalachian Trail.

Xpress: When and why did you begin volunteering for Carolina Mountain Club? I began in 2020. I thru-hiked in 2008 and always wanted to give back to the trail that changed my life in so many ways.