With multiple shelters and a tent platform along the way, this is gorgeous, multiple peak, backpacking trail in New Hampshire ...

Some people dream of taking months away from their jobs to hike the Appalachian Trail. For local photographer Carly Rae ...

Get ready for a more comfortable hike — without the back pain. I’m no ultralight hiker. I’m all for lightweight hiking gear, ...

The National Park Service’s parks, sites and monuments are not the only public lands affected by the seesawing reports of ...

Understanding and living a lifestyle are two different things. For Robin Tarnas, a now-retired physician and recently a recipient of the local Unsung Hero Award, it is about embracing ...

A group of business owners and the Appalachian Trail Conservancy (ATC) launched a free ferry service on Monday intended to ...

Plenty of hardcore hiker parents have beat the learning curve and mastered the art of safely and enjoyably trekking ...

Chris Karenbauer probably would have paused for a moment when his dad said he planned to walk from his home in Center ...

It was an icy mid-winter day when 73-year-old Ann Houghton parked her Subaru Outback at the Smokemont campground in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, shouldered her pack, and tramped into the ...

I close out a series of winter articles with this account of a Baxter State Park ski trek of nearly 20 miles, hauling a ...

Thankfully, volunteers and officials from the Appalachian Trail Conservancy have found a solution: a ferry. Instead of hiking ...

College towns with Midwest charm and culture The Midwest is filled with lively college towns, each with its own charm, energy and student-fueled culture. Dominated mostly by schools in the Big Ten ...