New England is home to vast expanses of natural landscapes and trails, but none as beautiful as the historic Massachusetts ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail can be done in about 5 million steps. Here's how long the trail is in miles and how many months it would take to hike.

Franklin resident James Flannery will run a 100-mile chunk of the Appalachian Trail to raise awareness and support for mental ...

It was a weekday in mid-May on the Appalachian Trail, and their footsteps were ... MacKaye — a forester and regional planner from Massachusetts — in a 1921 essay. Benton MacKaye, left, and ...

Berkshire Eagle reporter Greta Jochem is providing dispatches from a trip north on the Massachusetts section of the Appalachian Trail. She hit the trail Monday, Aug. 1, at the Connecticut line. One of ...

Mica Foster poses next to a dramatic tree that stands where the Appalachian Trail crests a hill outside of Dalton, Massachusetts. (Rusty Foster) Rusty Foster is partway through a planned six-month ...

"In 2019, I thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail in five months and 10 days ... New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West ...