HOT SPRINGS - In Hot Springs, things are starting to more closely resemble spring thru-hiking seasons of the past as the town rebuilds following Tropical Storm Helene. In a February news release, the ...

One of my favorite things about living in Tennessee is the wide variety of hiking trails you can find all over the state. As ...

A section of Appalachian Trail along the Haywood County border with Tennessee has been repaired after it was damaged in a ...

CLEVELAND, Tenn. (WATE) — A portion of the Appalachian Trail is closed as crews fight a blaze that broke out Thursday in North Carolina and spread into Cocke County, Tennessee. The trail is closed ...

ERWIN, Tenn. (WJHL) — A group of business owners and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) launched a free ferry service on Monday intended to help hikers on the Appalachian Trail (A.T.) better ...

MARS HILL - In January, the United States Forest Service and Appalachian Trail Conservancy presented a proposal to decommission and tear down the Overmountain Shelter barn, a once-popular Appalachian ...

Many sections of the trail in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee are covered by fallen trees and other debris. When Hurricane Helene rampaged through southern Appalachia last month, Alex Wilson ...

GARDNERS, Pa. — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take on its ice cream ...

On September 21, 2024, Tara Dower set a new overall supported fastest known time (FKT) on the Appalachian Trail with a time of 40 days, 18 hours, and 5 minutes, to be confirmed. The Appalachian Trail ...

There are still three sections of the Appalachian Trail that remain closed. More than 3 million people visit the Appalachian Trail each year, and more than 3,000 attempt to hike the entire trail.