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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

Stretching more than 2,190 miles across 14 different states, the Appalachian Trail may be the best long-distance hiking route in the entire world. Each year, three million people trek at least a ...

ADAMS — In a feat of athleticism and family, Nikki Bettis and her 15 children have hiked much of the Appalachian Trail. Nikki and 13 of her kids ... “They have a great campsite,” Nikki said. “We spent ...

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 ...