Jessica Mills is the creator of Homemade Wanderlust, a Youtube channel where she documents her thru-hiking adventures and the generosity of the strangers she’s met along the way. Editor’s Note: This ...

Emma Gatewood stands on the Oregon Trail, with her pack and an umbrella in tow. She hiked 2,000 miles of the trail in 1959, years after she thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail. When Emma Gatewood was 67 ...

Keith King is collecting donations for the "Make-A-Wish Foundation of Eastern North Carolina" while hiking the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine. Keith King is collecting donations for the "Make ...

In 1951, always an adventurer, he was the second person to walk the trail in a “thru-hike,” from Georgia to Maine, in an arduous 123 days. He later met the first to do so. By Richard Sandomir Gene ...

Parents thru-hiking with their kids isn’t just a social-media-age phenomenon. In this 1981 narrative from the Backpacker archives, Jeffrey Cogswell relates the story of a family hike up the ...

Betty Kellenberger, 80, at the top of Mount Katahdin in Maine. On September 12, Kellenberger became the oldest woman to through-hike the Appalachian Trail. Photo / Courtesy of Betty Kellenberger via ...

Geraldine Largay, a 66-year-old retired Air Force nurse and seasoned hiker, set out on a northbound thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail in July 2013. Known on the trail as ”Inchworm” for her slow but ...

A Brooklyn hiking enthusiast with dreams of one day tackling the nation’s highest mountains is carving his own trail through the concrete jungle this month by challenging himself to use his own two ...