El Hanyar Appalachian Hanya ce mai kyau wacce aka yiwa alama a gabashin Amurka wacce ta faɗi tsakanin tsaunin Springer a Georgia da Mount Katahdin a Maine.
Adadin duka ya kai kimanin mil 2.200 (kilomita 3.500) wanda ya shafi 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 guda 30 da ƙungiyoyi masu yawa ne ke kula da shi kuma ana gudanar da shi ta National Park Service da kuma riba mai ba da riba ta Appalachian Trail Conservancy. Yawancin hanyar tana cikin hamada, kodayake wasu sassan suna ƙetare garuruwa, hanyoyi da ƙetare koguna.
Hanyar Appalachian sanannen sanannen matafiya ne, wasu waɗanda zasu yi ƙoƙarin yin yawo cikakke a cikin kaka ɗaya. Yawancin littattafai, abubuwan tunawa, gidajen yanar gizo, da ƙungiyoyi an sadaukar dasu don wannan binciken.
An yiwa hanyar alama tare da hanyar tare da fararen launuka na fenti, yana jagorantar su ta hanyar ta cikin ɗakunan hawa sama da 250 da wuraren shakatawa da ke kan layi. Galibi ana raba mahalli ta hanyar tafiya ta yini ɗaya ko ƙasa da haka, galibi galibi kusa da tushen ruwa (wanda zai iya bushe) da kuma bayan gida.
Matsayi mafi girma a kan hanyar shine Clingmans a ƙafa 6643, kuma mafi ƙanƙan wuri yana kan Kogin Hudson. Abubuwan ban mamaki fauna suna yalwata tare da waɗannan hanyoyi kamar baƙin baƙar fata na Amurka, daga cikin manyan dabbobi waɗanda ba safai suke fuskantar mutane ba. Ganin gani a hanya ba safai ake samun sa ba, sai dai a wasu yan bangarori, musamman a Shenandoah National Park da kuma yankin New Jersey.
Sauran manyan dabbobi masu shayarwa sun hada da barewa da doki, wadanda ke kudu har Massachusetts, amma galibi ana ganinsu a arewacin New England.
Hanyar ta ƙetare hanyoyi da yawa, yana ba da babbar dama ga masu yawo don shiga cikin gari don abinci da sauran kayayyaki ban da otal-otal da masaukai.
Daga cikin sanannun garuruwan da ke kan hanya akwai Hot Springs, North Carolina, Erwin, Tennessee, Damascus, Virginia; Harpers Ferry, Yammacin Virginia; Duncannon, Pennsylvania, Port Clinton, Pennsylvania, Hanover, New Hampshire, da Monson, Maine.