The content on AppalachianTrail.com is disappointingly shallow to put it mildly. The second most popular article on the site, about carrying a firearm on the A

The content on AppalachianTrail.com is disappointingly shallow to put it mildly. The second most popular article on the site, about carrying a firearm on the AT, can be boiled down to "the laws are complicated, here's a lawyer joke and 2 links". Regardless of your stance on guns, an article making an honest attempt to address the question of carrying one might, just maybe, talk about the laws of each of the 14 states the trail passes through and address the question of the various federal jurisdictions the trail passes through as well. Maybe you'd also try to find some hikers who have tried to carry guns and interview them. The food and water articles are similarly shallow. You could write a chapter or more on each. The article on menstruation is just outright copied from another blog, with attribution, to be fair. And there's nothing about the current COVID-19 situation. Honestly, it's a lot of low-effort unmaintained content that doesn't add much, if anything, to what you can find with several minutes of googling. It's the kind of site that I assume is peppered with ads (or maybe affiliate links, I didn't look too hard) to make a couple of bucks. Anybody looking for actual information about the AT would be better served by any of the following: appalachiantrail.ORG <- The ATC whiteblaze.net <- AT hiker forum thetrek.co <- formerly appalachianTRIALS.com https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ https://adventuresinstoving.blogspot.com/ <- This is what actual niche content looks like.