This North Carolina town proves that slow, simple living can be sweet, charming, and full of small-town magic.

In August 1973, I backpacked the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with two of my buddies, Ken and Ray. The three of us, all starving college students, planned to hike the entir ...

From catching Yosemite’s Firefall to biking a car-free Going-to-the-Sun Road, some of the most sought-after national park ...

The large white-frame home on the grounds of the Cades Cove Visitor Center in the Great Smoky Mountains is known as the Becky Cable home. The home was built in 1879 along Forge Creek Road in Cades ...

The list reads like a celebration of small-town America, with the largest place on it topping out at just over 50,000 ...

Alabama’s most romantic place to go, according to Travel and Leisure, also happens to be home to its highest. The travel website recently released a list of most romantic places to go in each state, ...

Local parks often form the recreational backbone of a community, and this small regional park near the Smoky Mountains makes for a great weekend outing.

Discover North Carolina bucket list hikes, from easy breezy trails to bold, epic adventures that every hiker must try.

From George Masa’s 1915 arrival in Asheville until his death in 1933, the trailblazing Japanese photographer explored the Smoky Mountains, mapping trails and capturing the region’s grandeur and beauty ...

The southern portion of the Japanese Alps also stretches into Shizuoka prefecture. Today more than ten percent of the land in ...

North Carolina's Blue Ridge Parkway features several long hikes that reward endurance with sweeping mountain views, dense forests, and high-elevation scenery.

If you’re headed to the Cades Cove area this week and see smoke in the Smokies, it’s likely no cause for concern. Planned controlled burn operations are expected to occur in the Cades Cove area of ...