HOT SPRINGS - In Hot Springs, things are starting to more closely resemble spring thru-hiking seasons of the past as the town ...

The U.S. Forest Service has reopened more trails and roads throughout areas of the Pisgah National Forest’s Appalachian Ranger District. In a news release earlier this month, the U.S. Forest Service ...

Deputies say a man and a woman were caught traveling through Appalachian Trail towns and selling drugs to hikers along the trail. The pair was caught in the Rock Gap area of Macon County in North ...

The Carolina Mountain Club bought 130 volunteers in November 2024 to help clear debris left by Hurricane Helene along the Appalachian Trail and the French Broad River in the town of Hot Springs. David ...

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

Past overnight camping bans along Appalachian Trail have been put in place when bears wandered into occupied camps in search of food and defied attempts to frighten them away, McClatchy News reported.

FRANKLIN, N.C. (AP) — Appalachian Trail hikers have a new place to rest in North Carolina. The U.S. Forest Service says the Long Branch Shelter in the Standing Indian Basin in the Nantahala National ...

Maine Game Wardens and about 35 first responders rescued an injured Appalachian Trail hiker on Spaulding Mountain Wednesday night. Main Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife photo A North ...

A raging fire possibly caused by an unattended campfire has doubled in size along the Appalachian Trail in the North Carolina mountains, the U.S. Forest Service said Wednesday. The fire near Hot ...

The U.S. Forest Service reopened trails and roads in the Pisgah National Forest’s Appalachian Ranger District after damage from Tropical Storm Helene. More than 100 miles of the Appalachian Trail are ...