Recent Appalachian Trail Articles

Two Pennsylvania Shelters Face the Wrecking Crew The National Park Service plans to tear down two of the Appalachian Trail's best-known shelters in Pennsylvania, the 501 shelter and the Eckville shelter, and the hikers and volunteers who rely on them are organizing to stop it. Outside reported on

Katahdin's Gates Close: Baxter State Park Shuts Down Maine's Mightiest Peak for Another Winter The summit cairn on Baxter Peak is empty now. The scrambling hordes of Appalachian Trail thru-hikers — ragged, jubilant, months of trail grime baked into their gaiters — have long since filtered back sou