(Courtesy of Appalachian Trail Conservancy ... They were forced to puzzle over topographic maps so old that some dated to the Civil War. An image from Myron Avery's scrapbook shows the Pinnacles ...

Eagerly, we filled our bottles, leaving enough for other hikers. The Appalachian Trail map's next water source for the ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

Midway up the Appalachian Trail, a little country store in Gardners, Pennsylvania, invites hikers to take on an additional ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy regularly updates its interactive map showing the status of the trail. The U.S. Forest Service also updates trail information through the web page for the ...

and numerically rated every bowel movement he’d had along the 2,194-mile Appalachian Trail using the social media app Poop Map. He’d even analyzed his efforts for hiking website The Trek.

On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply disappears ... and are marked on a conservancy map with a bright red box.