The North Carolina section offers many of the Appalachian Trail's highest peaks, several above 6,000 feet. Hiking enthusiasts can set out on a multiday or weeklong journey (keep in mind that you ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains ... (An alternative route takes hikers around a closed section along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line in Mitchell County.) ...

The recovering alcoholic from Burlington, North Carolina, walked for eight months with no human support or companionship, no map or compass ... attempt to hike the Appalachian Trail in a single ...