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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you have time to hike or backpack a portion of the trail, recent hikers say that you'll be rewarded with memorable views of the park's wilderness, from foliage to animals. The Appalachian Trail ...

Wise said without that bridge, the section of the trail becomes impassable. “Not without figuring out another way to get from point A to B,” said Wise. “And the Appalachian Trail ...

The donation to the Green Mountain Club covers the longest remaining privately owned section of the Long Trail.

AFTON, Va. (CBS19 NEWS) -- Hikers can once again trek parts of the Appalachian Trail. The Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the U.S. Forest Service and the National Park Service have stopped discouraging ...

A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile ...

The Triple Crown of Hiking is completing the Appalachian ... The longest trail I ever completed was the Mid-State Trail of 329 miles, but it took me five years to do that as I section hiked ...