Long Trail

The short but stunning Mahoosuc Range has major-league attractions, like the toughest mile on the Appalachian Trail and conditions that discourage the faint of heart.

Follow the Pacific Crest Trail through Washington's volcano country and discover the high life.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Maine.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Virginia.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Vermont.

Say hello to North America's newest long trail.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Maryland.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in New Jersey.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Tennessee.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Massachusetts.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in New Hampshire.

Follow this BACKPACKER reader's tip to get the most out of your candles on the trail.

Our comprehensive guide to the best backpacking you can find in Pennsylvania.

A double lung transplant slows, but doesn't stop, Pacific Crest Trail hiker Dennis Coffey.

For 30 years, some wide-eyed dreamers have been chiseling a 745-mile route through the Canadian Rockies. The result is a labor of love set to become one of North America's most magnificent long trails.

The famed peaks of the Appalachian chain entice some 2,500 people to attempt the thru-hike each year.

This magnificent trail travels through three California parks while showcasing the natural wonders Muir worked to preserve.

Everything you'd want in a long trail.

Can you tackle our readers' favorite long trail? Test your hiking mettle against the Continental Divide Trail.

If land has a personality, then Vermont's 270-mile Long Trail is one moody, unpredictable way to hike through New England.

The best way to honor a wilderness-minded senator is to hike the Jackson Wilderness.

Robert Taylor wants African-Americans to know "there's something great out there."

The Appalachian Trail community lost a prominent supporter, volunteer, hiker, and maintainer.

Sometimes walking "backward" is the only way to go in New Hampshire's White Mountains.

Figure on 9 days to do the entire 100-mile hike—unless you're slowed drastically by all the blueberries.

Have your camera ready near dusk, when sunlight warms the landscape with intense color.

Vast meadows of wildflowers sprawl across the ridgetops and valley bottoms of the Three Sisters.

All along the 23-mile Shenandoah Mountain trail and in the forested areas throughout the Appalachian Mountains, vernal pools are rich aquatic breeding grounds.

Appalachian Trail (AT) advocate Edward Garvey, 84, recently died of congestive heart failure at Arlington Hospital in Virginia.

Get spectacular Appalachian Trail mountain views without much effort on the Riga Plateau.

Hike this gorgeous, mountainous section of Virginia's Appalachian Trail.

With all of the trail options in Pennsylvania's Michaux State Forest, it's hard to pick just one.

For some, reaching Maine's Mt. Katahdin is the end of a life-altering 2,100-mile pilgrimage. For others it's a lark. We captured the extremes, and a little bit of everything in between, one day atop Maine's "greatest mountain."

Who says the Appalachian Trail has to stop in Maine? Certainly not some plucky Canadians, who're extending the long-trail concept 600 more miles into their homeland.

The Continental Divide in Rocky Mountain National Park is a place of reckoning and, given its trackless nature, a place of choices. To a young man who came of age here, it offers perspective on paths not taken.

Some say Goat Rocks Wilderness has the best scenery along the 2,600-mile Pacific Crest Trail. Decide for yourself.

Get lost on Georgia's Duncan Ridge Trail.