New Jersey school requires freshmen to go on 55-mile hike

June 6, 2026
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For more than five decades, St. Benedict’s Preparatory School in Newark, New Jersey, has required its freshmen to go on a mandatory five-day, 55-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail. Steve Hartman explains why in “On the Road.”

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