During Orientation, a group of first-year Bates students paid a visit to a remote stretch of Maine wilderness. In some ways, it was a return trip for Bates. Starting in 1938, student members of the ...

The Maine Appalachian Trail Club is profoundly grateful to Sen. Susan Collins for championing our $475,000 congressional spending request, as well as Sen. Angus King for endorsing funds in the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Wendy Altschuler is a seasoned travel and adventure writer and author. Pacific Crest Trail, John Muir Trail, Continental Divide ...

MONSON, Maine (AP) — The Appalachian Trail Conservancy is opening a new visitor center for hikers preparing to enter Maine’s fabled 100-mile Wilderness. The visitor center, which opens Monday in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Google is celebrating the Appalachian Trail in today’s Google doodle. The footpath is over 2,190 miles and spans across 14 states ...

RILEY TOWNSHIP, Maine Fez Abramson was hiking north on the Appalachian Trail when the route seemed to hit a roadblock. Ahead lay a cluster of jagged, cabin-sized boulders. To the left and right, the ...

Carol M. Highsmith/Library of Co The Georgia Appalachian Trail Club mounted this plaque at Unicoi Gap in the Chattahoochee National Forest near the southern start of the A.T. (MUST CREDIT: Library of ...

Google is celebrating the Appalachian Trail in today’s Google doodle. The footpath is over 2,190 miles and spans across 14 states in the US. It is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world. If a ...