After Hurricane Helene upended her plans, Betty Kellenberger completed the 2,200-mile hike from Georgia to Maine, setting a ...

A 66-year-old hiker has been missing for more than two months on the Appalachian Trail in Virginia, and concerns are mounting as forecasters call for single digit temperatures in coming days. James ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is celebrating its 100th anniversary with a new campaign, inviting people to reconnect with the outdoors to boost well-being.

This year on her birthday, Carolyn Burman decided to do a solo hike in one of her favorite state parks in Connecticut. She has magical memories of that trek. She grew up hiking it — her mother even ...

Parents thru-hiking with their kids isn’t just a social-media-age phenomenon. In this 1981 narrative from the Backpacker archives, Jeffrey Cogswell relates the story of a family hike up the ...

Benjamin Solomon is just a week shy of finishing up his month-long “Thru-Hike to Nowhere,” a homemade mission that has seen ...

I am a bit of a map nerd. Latitude and longitude, heading and distance; I love the feeling of a paper map in my hands, rulers ready to chart my next adventure. But sometimes that just isn't practical.

The Appalachian Trail Museum recently inducted its 2024 Hall of Fame class. The induction took place Sept 21 at the Army Heritage Education Center, located at 950 Soldiers Dr., Carlisle. Included on ...

Veteran mountaineer Dale Atkins was climbing the challenging Kelso Ridge last week on Torreys Peak, a popular Front Range fourteener, when he encountered a woman in her 20s who had discovered the ...

Sixty-six curated trails tagged with Steamboat Springs currently are listed on the crowd-sourced trail app All Trails, but land managers say not all of those routes are sanctioned or maintained.

When you set out for a hike, there's a motto to remember "know before you go," but even the best plans fall apart. "I'm already confused," CBS reporter Karen Morfitt said while testing out the ...

They expect to open AOT in May 2026. The groundbreaking ceremony is set to be held Wednesday at 10:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. at ...