For those looking for a more strenuous one-day version of the epic Appalachian Trail, the hike from Neels Gap to Hogpen Gap in the Blood Mountain Wilderness is ideal. Rising over 4,500 feet in ...

Last month, the Appalachian Trail turned 100 years old. The footpath stretches 2,193 miles between Georgia’s Springer Mountain and Maine’s Mount Katahdin. Its founder, the late forest ...

A hostel in Erwin, well-known to hikers along the Appalachian Trail, is back open after six ... owner of Uncle Johnny's. "There was a mountain of debris at least this high when I showed up here." ...