To navigate the trail safely, the National Park Service has an interactive map that’s a valuable tool to keep handy. There’s also an Appalachian ... including the Great Smoky Mountains ...

More than three million people visit the Appalachian ... point of the entire trail at 6,644 feet, and is located on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National ...

See all 12 responses in this week’s print edition ... What types of work do you do on the trail and what keeps you coming back? I am an Appalachian Trail section maintainer, sawyer and ...

(Rusty Foster) Rusty Foster, a writer in Maine, recently started a planned six-month hike of the Appalachian ... an older A.T. map up the Baxter tote road to Elbow Pond. The trail is lovely ...

Scholars have rightly focused on two really big 20th-century examples: the Great Migration of African ... This Greater Appalachian migration is the subject of the historian Max Fraser’s debut ...

When they first started, he said, “You would walk a mile or two and everything would be great ... The Appalachian Trail Conservancy regularly updates its interactive map showing the status ...

Hiking the Appalachian ... deep in the Great Gulf Wilderness Area has become unsafe. They have closed it and will decide whether to remove it or replace it. The Madison Gulf Trail bridge is ...

Accessibility is one great aspect of the Appalachian Trail, agreed Vesna Plakanis, co-owner of A Walk in the Woods, a guide service based in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. “Another is that every segment ...

For some reason, Appalachian Trail thru-hikers decided this was a great place to wolf down a half-gallon of ice cream in one sitting to celebrate reaching the halfway point of their 2,200-mile ...