Cheryl Strayed’s “Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail” (2012) — a best-selling memoir and later a successful film — introduced a large, new audience to the allure of the West’s most ...

While The Appalachian Trail (AT) tends to get all the press, the U.S.’s other long distance hiking route covers even more distance. Many say it is more beautiful too. The Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) ...

It's the dream hike, all 2,650 miles of the Pacific Crest National Scenic Trail. Or, maybe, the nightmare hike, when things don't go quite right. Either way, that long-distance trail gem, from Mexico ...

Hikers attempting to walk the entire Pacific Crest Trail face some serious mileage—whichever way they’re going. This trail sign is near Mount Hood, in Oregon. Photo courtesy of Flickr user ...

The magnificent Pacific Crest Trail that stretches 2,650 miles across the Western states from Mexico to Canada, began in the late 1920s as a glimmer in the eye of some dedicated outdoor enthusiasts.

On a sub-zero November morning, following a month spent slogging 600 miles along wet, snowy stretches of the Pacific Crest Trail in Washington and Oregon, Shawn Forry and Justin Lichter awoke to find ...

Thousands of people each year set off to hike from Mexico to Canada along the Pacific Crest Trail, popularized by Cheryl Strayed's book "Wild." But most won't make it. That's because hiking more than ...