Whether you’re a dayhiker, thru-hiker, or a weekend warrior, you’ll fall in love with the Long Trail. Tracing the crest of the Green Mountains from the Massachusetts border to Canada, the 272-mile ...

A runner descends the Crow Pass Trail, part of the Historic Iditarod Trail, a route advocates of the Alaska Long Trail say the trail would take. (Lex Treinen/Alaska Public Media) A 500-mile trail ...

At the Massachusetts and Vermont border starts the Vermont Long Trail, a 272-mile footpath up, over and through the Green Mountains. Widely considered one of the nation’s most difficult hikes, it ...

The Three Musketeers (from left, Catherine Robbins, Hilda Kurth and Kathleen Norris) became the second, third and fourth people ever to hike the Long Trail from end to end, a feat they accomplished in ...

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Before dawn on Tuesday, August 19, 2025, Tara Dower reached the southern terminus of the 272-mile Long Trail at the Vermont–Massachusetts border. She had set a new overall supported fastest known time ...

Outdoor recreation in Alaska is unique because Alaska’s landscapes are different from anywhere else. Our mountains are bigger, our wild spaces more vast and our wildlife more abundant. While plenty of ...

Here’s some inspiration to get you through mud season and looking ahead to summer adventures. Burlington cartographer Bill Morris has created a Twitter bot named Every Long Trail Mile that tweets out ...

The Alaska Long Trail is a work-in-progress, 500-plus mile multimodal route connecting trail systems from Seward to Fairbanks. Apart from planning and constructing new segments, the AKLT project also ...