About 3,000 people attempt the entire distance of the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail every year. Only 1 in 4 make it. It took ...

Repairs to the worst-hit sections of the famed trail are expected to be extraordinarily expensive and require substantial ...

Every spring, thousands of intrepid hikers prepare to test their physical and mental acumen by walking nearly 2,200 miles ...

US Army vet George Eshleman in 2016 took the name tags of 363 soldiers who died by suicide – that’s 22 a day in a two-week ...

The Appalachian Trail (AT) is the world's longest hiking-only path, at 3,535 kilometres from Mount Katahdin in Maine to ...

My mission was to run 2,197 miles of the Appalachian trail from Maine to Georgia in just 50 days to celebrate my 50th birthday and raise money for clean water. Crossing 14 states, I would tackle an ...

“If you like the Appalachian Trail the way that it was ... it in 1968 while training to be an Army Ranger in the north Georgia mountains. For a decade, he has spent a few weeks each spring ...

NPCA reflects on the storm damage caused by Helene to national parks in the Southeast, including the Blue Ridge Parkway and ...

Endurance phenom describes the method and motivation behind her 40-day run from Maine to Georgia, battling anxiety and intense fatigue to knock 13 hours off the fastest known time for the ...

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...