A heavily eroded half-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail has been on the Smoky Mountain Hiking Club's project list for at least six years.

“Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail” also features eight maps of the existing AT and its ... they pulled down all the old trail markers,” Kelly told me. According to a legend Kelly has ...

Alexis McAllister’s backpack were lined up on a table inside the Hawk Mountain education building for the inaugural Pennsylvania Appalachian Trail Hiker Kickoff event. She had a ...

We’re scouting an attempt-it-only-during-drought-conditions alternative route of the 1,550-mile Cross Texas Trail, or XTX, ...

Outdoor enthusiast Charles Gandy is out to do the impossible by creating a cross-Texas route to rival the Appalachian and ...

Conservationists from Georgia to Maine spent this week strategizing in Roanoke about how to preserve the natural environment that gives the Appalachian Trail its world-renowned outdoor appeal.

“In most cases,” says Jordan, “there are no markers at all; sometimes there are no road signs.” Hikers must study maps ... Plains Trail—a path 10 miles longer than Appalachian National ...

And it’s all right there for the hiking — a public path with a network of trail maps and descriptions ... For those who walk from end to end, the Appalachian Mountain Club, the trail’s ...

According to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy's Helene resource page, there are still three sections of the trail that are closed, all in Tennessee. The closures include the 344.6-mile marker at ...

(WCYB) — Nearly 30 miles of the Appalachian Trail reopened Friday ... there were hundreds of downed trees blocking the Trail in a single mile," said Kathryn Herndon-Powell, the ATC's Interim ...

Eagerly, we filled our bottles, leaving enough for other hikers. The Appalachian Trail map's next water source for the section we hiked was a nearby campground. We filled our bottles without ...

About 3,000 people attempt the entire distance of the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail every year. Only 1 in 4 make it ... Thorn said he was emotional when he hit the 1,000 mile marker in Virginia. When ...