Walnutport Postmaster Kate Hutter and her children frequently hike on the nearby Appalachian Trail to take in scenery, ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park covers 522,427 acres evenly split between Tennessee and North Carolina, the National Park ...

The Appalachian Trail Conservancy regularly updates its interactive map showing the status of the trail. The U.S. Forest Service also updates trail information through the web page for the ...

Construction of infrastructure for places to walk and bike in the United States can take a long time as the political world ...

The Great Saunter route took me around the entire perimeter of Manhattan. All that walking helped me rethink my marathon ...

Although February is behind us, winter isn't over for New Hampshire. So instead of trudging through the last few weeks of the ...

Born on July 30, 1920, geologist and cartographer Tharp changed scientific thinking about what lay at the bottom of the ocean – not a featureless flat, but rugged and varied terrain.

Discover the history of The Ridges in Athens, Ohio - a former mental asylum turned Ohio University facility - spanning 150 years of transformation and use.

As Steve Goodman ventures deeper into the towering forest, he keeps his ears open and binoculars close. With a recording ...

Helene's devastating rains caused more than 2,000 landslides across North Carolina. Here's what geologists are doing to map out and expand a public database.