Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Heads up, hikers. The USDA Forest Service is shutting down a camping shelter along the popular Appalachian Trail for the next ...

Great Smoky Mountains — Of the 2,200 miles the Appalachian Trail covers from Georgia to Maine, hikers experience the highest peaks on the 70-mile stretch through the Great Smoky Mountains in North ...

Hungry black bears are cleaning up after littering campers on the Appalachian Trail. Hikers have spotted several bears near the Campbell and Lamberts Meadow shelters, prompting the Roanoke Appalachian ...

It was on the Appalachian Trail in Massachusetts, and I could barely make out what I was seeing before the bear took off deeper into the woods. My hiking partner and I considered ourselves incredibly ...