Here are 12 of the most beautiful national parks in the U.S.

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 ...

Some national parks have a way of stopping you in your tracks. They’re the kind of place where you forget to reach for your ...

It stands to reason that the best National Parks in the U.S. would also be the most popular, at least in most respects, and ...

Have you had visions of curling up next to a fireplace and bundling your kids to play in the snow?

America’s busiest national park isn’t Yosemite or Yellowstone; it’s the Great Smoky Mountains, which straddles the heavily forested border of North Carolina and Tennessee. Half the country can drive ...

Paradise Valley Trail, which winds through one of the Canadian Rockies’ most stunning valleys, demands engagement from all ...

Most visitors to the Smokies, North Carolina, end up making simple blunders that turn dream vacations into frustrating ...

Deep in the Great Smoky Mountains, morning mist hugs the ridges, and silence feels almost sacred. Cataloochee was once a ...

That’s exactly what you’ll discover at Toccoa Riverside Restaurant in Blue Ridge, Georgia, where Mother Nature herself seems ...

Trillium, salmonberry blossoms, and Pacific bleeding heart create splashes of color against the green backdrop. The park’s ...

Attendance at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the country’s most-visited national park, dropped for second year in a row. But the longest federal government shutdown in history is not all to ...