When you decide to hike the daunting Appalachian Trail, the best time of year to start and end your hike depends on what ...

The Appalachian Trail and Pacific Crest Trail taught my aging parents to adapt, and that's a survival skill for us all.

A hiker injured on a steep, remote section of the Appalachian Trail in New Hampshire managed to splint their own leg Monday ...

When park rangers found 65-year-old Emma Gatewood lost and confused in Maine in 1953 after she broke her glasses on the ...

An Appalachian Trail thru hiker's journey was halted after suffering from a serious, but non-life-threatening head injury ...

"This amazing 91-year-old fellow was just 100 or so miles from becoming the oldest person ever to complete the AT." ...

Ten-year-old Liam Holland and his father, Dola, set off on the Appalachian Trail on Feb. 13 and summited Katahdin on Tuesday, ...

Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...

At 80 years old, Betty Kellenberger recently became the oldest woman to ever hike the entire Appalachian Trail.

It is 84 acres of wooded land with a “secret shelter” for thru-hikers located at the border of New York’s Orange County and ...

In 1990, a youthful Earl Swift hiked the Appalachian Trail (AT) from Maine to Georgia. Along the way, the Virginia journalist met a young couple he’d followed south from Mount Katahdin and through the ...