About 20 percent more people are storing their food in their tent with them than in the recommended bear cans.

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Charles Hosch, 67, hiked up Georgia's Blood Mountain on the Appalachian Trail a month ago. Despite massive searches, the Texas lawyer and professor hasn't been seen since.

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy has announced nearly $500,000 in grants for conservation organizations, including some in Western North Carolina.

The former head of a nonprofit group that raised money to restore popular trails in the White Mountains will plead guilty to ...

In Arizona's Sky Islands, the biodiversity of the Arizona Trail unspools on a landscape populated with desert vegetation and wildlife like coatimundi, snakes and skunks. Rising temperatures and other ...

Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...

Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...

Welcome to Salem's Carilion Clinic Field at Salem Memorial Ballpark, where the mountain views are panoramic and the region's ...

Pennsylvania First Lady Lori Shapiro recently hiked a 10-mile section of the Appalachian Trail in Franklin County as part of her goal to walk all 229 miles of the trail in the state, according to a ...

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 ...

In American slang, “take a hike” is often used to tell someone to go away. But as the Appalachian Trail Conservancy celebrates its 100th anniversary, the organization is working to reframe the phrase ...