World War II veteran Earl Shaffer was the first person to complete hiking the Appalachian Trail. When Shaffer began his journey at Mount Oglethorpe in Georgia, he intended it as a self-care ...

Rusty Foster We set out on the Appalachian Trail. Mistakes were made. When you’re heading into 100 miles of wilderness, sometimes you have to start with a pause.

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.

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.

Rob Weisberg plans to hike the Appalachian trail with his dog Chip to raise money for Paws of War. The Nesconset nonprofit is training Chip to act as a service dog to Weisberg, a volunteer Commack ...

The Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire just got easier, as another debate looms over replacing structures in wilderness areas A map of detour around the closed Madison Gulf bridge.

The Forest Service announced in early February it had opened a total of 114 miles of the Appalachian Trail within Pisgah National Forest, from I-40 to Indian Grave Gap (milepost 241.3 to 351.8 ...

Early on, the trail’s path took Yunghans through the Great Smoky Mountains, which straddle the border between North Carolina and Tennessee, and a portion of the massive, more than 650,000-acre ...