New Hampshire and Maine. It’s no easy feat – hiking the Appalachian Trail takes about five to seven months to complete. That’s about five million steps, according to the ATC. Most thru ...
SCOTT HUNTER is retiring as fire chief in Bedford at the end of March. To the surprise of probably no one who knows him, though, his idea of taking it easy involves hiking more than 2,190 miles from ...
To date, the US Forest Service has surveyed and cleared nearly 240 miles of roads (nearly 76% of roads) across the ...
Six months is a reasonable amount of time to complete the 2,181-mile-long Appalachian ... splints and ran through the pain until it finally subsided. His example gave me hope. I convinced myself that ...
In Asheville, Hot Springs and other towns that cater to hikers, many restaurants, hotels and Airbnb’s have reopened. Road ...
Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...
Thousands of Appalachian Trail "thru-hikers" start their journeys north along the 2,200-mile-long trail, starting in Georgia and ending at Mount Katahdin, Maine. Hot Springs is a major stop.