The Appalachian Mountain Club’s Maine Woods Initiative is a 404 square kilometer area of land in the 100-Mile Wilderness. It ...

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 ...

Further afield in Acadia National Park, New England’s only national park, Sand Beach offers total tranquility and seclusion – ...

Michael Fenner, 64, has completed the 2,190-mile Appalachian Trail. He reflected on exhaustion and accomplishment at Mount ...

When conditions are right, the Penobscot River Trails in Grindstone offer some of the best Nordic skiing in Maine. As was true throughout most of Maine, snow was scarce in northern Penobscot County ...

Some of my most vivid memories from that spring and summer are of hiking in the South, during our first days on the trail. Although we were young, healthy and strong, our bodies rebelled at carrying ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Homeland Security said Friday that it is ending the collective bargaining agreement with the tens of thousands of frontline employees at the Transportation ...

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The AT is the longest hiking-only footpath in the world, drawing about 3 million visitors each year, and it’s the first path in the nation to have become a federally-protected National Scenic Trail.