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 ...

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.

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

the Virginia Creeper Trail and the Appalachian Trail. But on Sept. 27, the trails took a major hit from Hurricane Helene. “[The blowdowns] can vary from a simple tree across the trail to ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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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 ...