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 ...

Megan Hessenberger will hike 101 miles in honor of her great-grandmother, who founded the National Humane Education Society.

The Appalachian Trail Museum recently inducted ... he worked with Myron Avery to lay out the route of the Trail from Pennsylvania to Georgia. As director, Cammerer was instrumental in making ...

Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Georgia. The path typically takes a thru-hiker about five to seven months to complete, according to the Appalachian Trail ...

On a clear day, a hiker standing atop Bake Oven Knob, a high point along the Appalachian Trail in Lehigh Furnace ... and farmsteads in the historically Pennsylvania Dutch communities.

The Appalachian trail is closed from Lehigh Gap to Little Gap ... Lehigh Township Chief Rick Hildebrand said that Federal ...

Kathryn Herndon-Powell, who’s in charge of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy south of Pennsylvania, arranged for the stairs’ delivery to Catawba Mountain and for the ACC crew that installed them.

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

“It's been my dream for a long time to teach this ecology of Appalachia course, to pass those skills on to other students and to take them to an iconic place like the Appalachian trail,” said Prather, ...

Homer’s unstoppable spirit on the Triple CrownAs we moved further into Virginia, the Shenandoah was in our sights. Frank ...

UNAKA MOUNTAIN, Tenn. — On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply disappears. For lengthy stretches, it lies under tangles of trees ...