MARS HILL - In January, the United States Forest Service and Appalachian Trail Conservancy presented a proposal to decommission and tear down the Overmountain Shelter barn, a once-popular Appalachian ...
CARTER COUNTY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Volunteers spent their Monday morning removing the former roof of an Appalachian Trail shelter after it burned down last week. The Laurel Fork Shelter in Hampton was ...
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, ...
Whether you have spent a night or six months on the Appalachian Trail (A.T), every hiker eventually experiences one of the trail’s iconic lean-tos or huts. More than 250 such backcountry structures ...
When I arrived at the Priest on my thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in 2015, I didn’t quite grasp the cultural significance ...
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. (WJHL) — Two popular Appalachian Trail shelters in Carter County are now closed, including the highest-elevation shelter on the entire trail. The U.S. Forest Service (USFS) ...