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These were the most-read trips articles we published in 2025, from an essay on backcountry loneliness to a guide to our ...

One of the most grueling records in American endurance sports fell late Saturday night in northern Georgia. Tara Dower, a 31-year-old ultrarunner and long-distance hiker born in North Carolina and ...

There's a battle brewing between trail angels and hiker-focused businesses on the Appalachian Trail. Can the two coexist?

Roaring Fork Valley’s Shayla Paradeis, known on the trail as “Kiddo,” has earned her place among long-distance hiking’s most intrepid adventurers. Paradeis has traversed thousands of miles on foot, ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail has changed a bit in the last 3 1/2 decades, but it is still worth every blister. Right about now, the first wave of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers are headed north from ...

GRUNDY, Va. (WJHL) — Grundy, Virginia native Jonathan Dotson is a recent Virginia Tech graduate. The avid hiker is living a lifelong dream by hiking the Appalachian Trail. “The most, most freedom that ...

Texas is getting its very own long-distance cross-state thru trail thanks to one ambitious outdoorsman with a vision. The Cross Texas Trail (xTx) would extend 1,500 miles from Orange to El Paso, ...