The Friday unveiling of a historical marker declaring Marion as the birthplace of modern Mountain Dew is not the end of a long campaign, but the kickoff of a new ...

Two employees of the National Park Service oversee 500 miles of trails in the 198,000-acre Shenandoah National Park, which ...

“Virginia’s Lost Appalachian Trail” also features eight ... they pulled down all the old trail markers,” Kelly told me. According to a legend Kelly has never been able to verify, the ...

National Trails Day is June 7 and volunteers are needed to help install logs on an AT trail near Icewater Spring Shelter.

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 ...

To most people, the Eckville shelter looks like an old tool shed, a throwback to our grandparents’ garages of yesteryear. For ...

Long-distance hiking (or thru-hiking) may seem like an activity with a ton of health benefits, but it also results in this condition common among astronauts.