Repairs to the worst-hit sections of the famed trail are expected to be extraordinarily expensive and require substantial ...

About 3,000 people attempt the entire distance of the 2,198-mile Appalachian Trail every year. Only 1 in 4 make it. It took ...

The Appalachian Trail travels about 72 miles through GSMNP along the North ... Start: GSMNP Park Boundary, Fontana Dam End: GSMNP Park Boundary, Davenport Gap, Tenn., 32, NC 284 (1.1 miles) It’s a ...

A woman recently ran the entire length of the Appalachian Trail, beating the fastest known time by 13 hours. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old professional runner, recently ran the roughly 2,200-mile ...

Megan Hessenberger will hike 101 miles in honor of her great-grandmother, who founded the National Humane Education Society.

The first time Tara Dower set out to thru-hike the Appalachian Trail, in 2017, she had a panic attack. She felt alone and overwhelmed just eight days after setting off from the trail’s southern ...

Flood waters rose to shoulder height, effectively destroying the entire children and young adult portion of the Hot Springs ...

The Texas General Land Office announced this week that its boundary with Oklahoma was redrawn to correct the placement of a ...

As floodwaters roared through remote mountain communities of Western North Carolina, locals raced against time to save each ...

The roughly 67,000-acre protected area allows visitors to explore more than 100 miles of hiking trails, including 27 miles of the Appalachian Trail ... the Delaware Water Dam National Recreation ...

Hurricane Helene hit Florida's Big Bend region and spread devastation up to the Appalachian Mountains. The storm led to over 40 deaths across four states, causing severe flooding, dam failures ...

The reservoir, formed when a dam was constructed on the Toccoa River ... Springer Mountain is the starting point of the Appalachian Trail – or the endpoint, depending on which direction you ...