He started this mission back in March, embarking on a journey of hiking 2,198 miles across 14 different states in just five ...

Jersey Shore native Alex Butzler remembers being in fifth grade and reading the book “Walking with Spring” by Earl V. Shaffer ...

Jersey Shore native Alex Butzler remembers being in fifth grade and reading the book “Walking with Spring” by Earl V. Shaffer ...

In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side. Its tangled web of roots and dark brown soil, known as a root ball, is ...

Iowa veteran Joedy VanVelzen is making his way through Maine at the Kennebec River Crossing in Caratunk. It’s the final state ...

Baker faced a series of debilitating setbacks that crushed her biggest hopes and threatened her life. So she made a deal with ...

Leaders with the Appalachian Trail Conservancy said more than 430 miles of trail were closed due to damage sustained during ...

It's believed he started walking the Appalachian Trail sometime around April of 2017. From a state park in New York, he hiked south and, about a thousand miles and 10 months later, crossed into ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), which oversees the 2,193-mile route, implored day hikers and “thru-hikers” to temporarily hang up their hiking boots.

You can't see the Appalachian Trail from the sky, not directly anyway. But you can see the ridge it follows, extending seemingly forever from horizon to hazy blue horizon, making our view from ...