After Kevin Silvernale finished thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in 2016, he was hooked and started devising his own long-distance trail. The 34-year-old Colorado local went on to hike the ...

Not all dreams deferred shrivel and fade in the sun—some snowball through the decades to explode in a beautiful realization. At least that’s the case for many hikers who pursue their long-trail dreams ...

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, ...

Natalie “Swell” Dillon, an avid backpacker who lives in Bishop in California’s Eastern Sierra, completed the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail in 2022. And every year since, the occupational therapist — ...

GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take ...

From 10,000-mile hikes to the battle over public lands, here are the highlights we'll be thinking about long after the year turns over.

It isn’t that hard to find them in town. Thru-hikers are predictable — more animal-like in behavior than town and city folk. Burger stands are typical spotting grounds. Any cheap motel with the door ...

Most Long Trail hikers know the motto, “A Footpath in the Wilderness.” But how many hikers know that most of the landscapes the trail traverses still lack the wildland protections envisioned by the ...