After Kevin Silvernale finished thru-hiking the Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) in 2016, he was hooked and started devising his own long-distance trail. The 34-year-old Colorado local went on to hike the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gaining access to the Palmetto Trail has proven more difficult than expected for some hikers traveling through Columbia. Those ...

GARDNERS, Pa. (AP) — Sam Cooper had just trekked 7 miles (11 kilometers) through a rain-sodden stretch of the Appalachian Trail when he sat down outside a little country store in Pennsylvania to take ...

Each year, only about one out of every four hikers who set out to complete the Appalachian Trail reaches that goal. A thru-hike means traversing nearly 2,200 miles, across 14 states, in a single ...

The Palmetto Trail is South Carolina’s only mountains-to-the-sea hiking path. The section in this photograph, taken in January 2026, is along Leesburg Road at Fort Jackson in Columbia. Sammy ...