The North Carolina section offers many of the Appalachian Trail's highest peaks, several above 6,000 feet. Hiking enthusiasts can set out on a multiday or weeklong journey (keep in mind that you ...

Developers completed the first section in 1923 and fully connected the trail by 1937. A northbound Appalachian Trail thru-hike starts at Springer Mountain in northern Georgia and ends on Mount ...

The BOC proudly stewards the oldest continually maintained section of the Appalachian Trail in Maine. Bate students have maintained this same section of trail since the 1930s. The Bates section is in ...

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Thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail is an incredibly challenging feat. The 2,100-mile route from Georgia to Maine includes 900,000 vertical feet of climbing, and just about one in four people who ...

Officially, that section and the rest of ... Mountain Club and the Tennessee Eastman Hiking & Canoeing Club, whose volunteers maintain the Appalachian Trail in the national forests north of ...