FRANKLIN - As the weather continues to warm up and hikers take to the Appalachian Trail in Western North Carolina, trail visitors passing through the region will have a new shelter to visit ...

National Trails Day is June 7 and volunteers are needed to help install logs on an AT trail near Icewater Spring Shelter.

The Carolina Mountain Club bought 130 volunteers in November 2024 to help clear debris left by Hurricane Helene along the Appalachian Trail and the French Broad River in the town of Hot Springs.

The U.S. Forest Service has established a temporary overnight camping ban along the Appalachian Trail from Tanyard Gap ... to Deep Gap in Franklin, a little over an hour east of Asheville, due ...

Winding its way from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail (also known as the AT) spans 2,190 miles through 14 states. About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles ...

More than 114 miles of the Appalachian Trail in the Pisgah National forest reopened, the Forest Service announced. With the ...

Volunteers often adopt sections of the trail and go out every week or two to maintain it, says Franklin Tate, the Appalachian Trail Conservancy’s associate regional director based in Asheville.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains ... its railroad tracks make it a dicey place to walk, said Franklin Tate, the conservancy’s associate regional director.

On a mountaintop mantled in moss and nearly century-old red spruce, the Appalachian Trail now simply disappears ... of the areas to reforest,” said Franklin Tate, an associate regional director ...

There are still three sections of the Appalachian Trail that remain closed. More than 3 million people visit the Appalachian Trail each year, and more than 3,000 attempt to hike the entire trail.