This trail cuts through the mountains of West Virginia and offers a less crowded alternative to the better known thru-hikes ...

Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Sam Cooper, trail name Pie Top, attempts the half-gallon ice cream challenge at Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

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 challenge ...

On Friday, July 18, at 6 a.m., the scent of frying bacon filled the Northbound Lot of the Appalachian Trail at Lehigh Gap.

Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Sam Cooper, trail name Pie Top, attempts the half-gallon ice cream challenge at Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

The 2025 Appalachian Trail Hall of Fame Banquet will be held on the Saturday before Thanksgiving at the Bavarian Inn Resort & ...

Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Sam Cooper, trail name Pie Top, attempts the half-gallon ice cream challenge at Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, June 10, 2025.

Appalachian Trail thru-hiker Noritaka Mizumoto, from Osaka, Japan, walks the Appalachian Trail at Pine Grove Furnace State Park in Pennsylvania on Tuesday, June 10, 2025. (AP Photo/Mingson Lau) ...

KEMPTON, Pa. — To most people, the Eckville shelter looks like an old tool shed, a throwback to our grandparents’ garages of yesteryear. For decades, though, this small building just off the ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional challenge: eating a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting.

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 ...