The hike up Mount Katahdin is considered a “very strenuous” climb, Baxter State Park officials said. The hike takes 8-12 ...

The body of a hiker who set out to climb Maine’s Mount Katahdin on the Appalachian Trail has been found. The search continues ...

By Christopher Burns, Bangor Daily News Staff Katahdin is the crown jewel of the Maine outdoors. It looms large over the ...

according to the Appalachian Trail Conservancy, the nonprofit that manages and protects the 2,200-mile trail from Georgia to Maine. After tens of thousands of hours of work by volunteers and the ...

Chris Brunton, who now lives in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia, was part of those teams that carved a section of the Appalachian Trail (AT ... in addition to rental cabins, a hostel and trail shelters, ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC), the organization that oversees the Appalachian Trail, turns 100 years old in March. About 68 miles of the 2,190-mile trail from Maine to Georgia lie along ...

In a town of slightly more than 5oo residents, the 103-acre resort drew an average of 70,000 visitors annually, including hundreds of Appalachian Trail hikers ... hike means heading from Georgia to ...

The Appalachian Trail stretches across 14 states from Georgia to Maine in the US and runs almost 2,200 miles ... One business owner, Terry Wise, lost his hostel in Erwin, Tennessee; a place that many ...

The Appalachian Trail extends for almost 2,200 miles across 14 states – from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine ... of the cabins at Wise’s hostel in Erwin were flooded.