Kira Hanyar Appalachian Tafiya ce mai bin hanyar matafiya wacce ke haɗuwa da ɗayan mafi kyawun yanayin Arewacin Amurka a tsayin ɗaukakarta. Kuma ita ce tafiya a cikin ta yana zurfafa wannan keɓaɓɓiyar al'adun yankin.
Yana da alama alama a gabashin Amurka mai shimfidawa tsakanin tsaunin Springer a ciki Georgia da Dutsen Katahdin a cikin Maine wanda tsayinsa duka ya kai kimanin mil 2,200 (kilomita 3,500).
Ta wannan hanyar, hanyar ta ratsa jihohin Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire da Maine.
Kulab ɗin kula da hanyoyi 30 da ƙungiyoyi masu yawa waɗanda ke kula da theungiyar Kula da Nationalasa da erungiyar Appalachian Trail Conservancy ke kulawa. Yawancin hanyar tana cikin hamada, kodayake wasu sassan suna ƙetare garuruwa, hanyoyi da ƙetare koguna
Benton MacKaye ne ya kirkiro hanyar, wani masanin kimiyyar gandun daji wanda ya rubuta asalin shirinsa jim kadan bayan mutuwar matar tasa a shekarar 1921. Manufar MacKaye ita ce ta nuna babbar hanyar da ta hade jerin gonaki da sansanonin kwadago.
Har zuwa Oktoba 7, 1923, an buɗe sashin farko na hanyar, daga Bear Mountain State Park yamma ta hanyar Harriman zuwa Arden, New York. Wannan ya haifar da samuwar Hanyar Appalachian.
Daga cikin dabbobin da za a iya samun su a kan hanyar akwai baƙar fata ɗan Amurka wanda ba safai yake fuskantar mutane ba. Ba a cika ganin gani a hanya ba, sai a cikin Shenandoah National Park.
Sauran manyan dabbobi masu shayarwa sun hada da barewa da doki, wadanda ke kudu har Massachusetts, amma sun fi yawa a arewacin New England.