The Appalachian Mountains often called the Appalachian or the Eastern Highlands are a vast mountain range stretching across eastern North America. The Appalachian range runs from the Canadian province ...

If it weren't for Pete Rodgers and his fellow Coosa County Cooperators, the historic fire tower and cabins high atop Flagg Mountain would likely be ruins. Or at least well on their way. The group ...

Lots of folks in the Mid-Atlantic ached for a gorgeous Tuesday afternoon. A handful of weather forecasts showed potential high temperatures jumping into the 60s and 70s through North Carolina and ...

High in the mist-laced folds of the Appalachian Mountains, stories whisper of villages that once existed and then were gone. Not destroyed by disaster, not erased by war, but seemingly swallowed by ...

The little trail we are hiking in the North Georgia woods belongs to us and the bears. The hardwoods overhead are as diverse as any in the Eastern United States. The ferns, Galax, poison ivy and other ...

The Appalachian Trail, or AT, stretches more than 2,000 miles along the US East Coast. The longest marked trail in the country runs from Georgia to Maine. It connects 14 states and passes through ...

Stretching 2,197 miles from Georgia to Maine, the Appalachian National Scenic Trail is the most widely known hiking trail in the country. Most Long Islanders with a penchant for the outdoors have ...

A dense green forest surrounds the thin corridors of dark brown earth that make up the Appalachian Trail system. The trees ...