What Robert Redford’s A Walk In The Woods Gets Wrong About Hiking The Appalachian Trail (According To Experts)

2015’s A Walk In The Woods includes some of the most picturesque landscapes of the Appalachian Trail, but the biopic also contains various inaccuracies, despite being based on a book inspired by a true story. The dramedy is just as much an improbable adventure through one of the world’s longest trails as it is a story of reconnection between two friends who semi-deliberately lost contact, before realizing only on the trail how much they missed each other’s company. A Walk In The Woods manages to be relatively faithful to the book that inspires it, but the film still packs a few inaccuracies about hiking the Appalachian Trail.