We generalize a result of Balister, Gy{H{o}}ri, Lehel and Schelp for hypergraphs. We determine the unique extremal structure of an $n$-vertex, $r$-uniform, connected, hypergraph with the maximum number of hyperedges, without a $k$-Berge-path, where $n geq N_{k,r}$, $kgeq 2r+13>17$.