Ever thought about hiking the longest, hiking-only footpath in the world? It’s right here in the U.S., passing through the eastern Appalachian Mountains. The elevation gain of the Appalachian Trail ...

Rounding out our summer re-run series, here’s a column from 2023 about a most determined hiker! Five years ago now, Diana Jackson was walking 2,192 miles. The Darien native is one of over 3,300 people ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Do you dream of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail, of slipping out of ...

This week, I went for a walk in the woods. In eager anticipation of the film version of Bill Bryson's bestselling book, "A Walk in the Woods," I grabbed my backpack and headed north on the Appalachian ...

The Appalachian Trail, one of the world's longest continuously marked footpaths, turns 80 this month. Conservancy and volunteer groups completed the 2,190 mile-long footpath in August 1937 from Maine ...

A hiker with a battery-powered, bionic leg has set out to become the first amputee to walk the entire Appalachian Trail, a 2,168-mile trek from Georgia to Maine. “I am on my way,” Scott Rogers said by ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... The sun beat down on the narrow wooden boardwalk. On either side, lush, impenetrable foliage hummed with insects and birdsong. It was sweltering — a cloying, ...

Conor Farley was part of the surge of those attempting to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail in spring and summer 1999, in the wake of the 1998 release of Bill Bryson's best-selling account of his failed ...

The day Betty Kellenberger hit a patch of freezing rain on Mount Madison, quitting crossed her mind. She was hungry, cold and sore. “You’re 80 years old,” she told herself in a pep talk atop a ...

Three years ago, Jensen Bissell, the director of Baxter State Park, the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, raised concerns to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy about the number of AT ...