A 407-acre tract abutting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Cataloochee Valley has been conserved, buffering the ...

The Gatlinburg Trail offers an easy way for travelers staying in downtown Gatlinburg to take a quick hike in the park. The path runs about two miles one-way from the southern end of Gatlinburg to ...

Another easy spot to view wildflowers is along the Cove Hardwood Nature Trail during spring. This walking path is less than a ...

Using carbon dating, Montana State University researchers found the clutch of 30 whitebark pine trees were between 5,440 and ...

Two hunting buddies hire guides to ride them into the backcountry and hunt elk and mountain goats in this story from the ...

Mount Everest has long been considered the highest mountain on Earth, but new research shows that this is not the case. Scientists have now discovered two mountains that are 100 times higher than the ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A mountain in New Zealand considered an ancestor by indigenous people was recognized as a legal person on Thursday after a new law granted it all the rights and ...

Driftless Social, which opened two years ago in Mount Horeb, 25 miles west of ... The wood awning over the bar comes from Smoky’s and the wallpaper with yellow fans is meant to evoke “The Great Gatsby ...

A Florida Republican has introduced legislation to add Donald Trump's face to Mount Rushmore ... "He will be forever remembered among the great like Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson ...

In a two-year research project starting this summer, Great Smoky Mountains National Park ... s only two employees tasked with working on mountain amphibian populations in Western North Carolina.

Back in the late 1880s, two remarkable men, Wilbur Zeigler and Ben Grosscup, visited Western North Carolina for the express purpose of developing a comprehensive profile of the region’s resources. ...

Climbers returning from the Everest say the mountain is becoming increasingly dry and rocky with less snow or other precipitation, which experts say could be due to global warming or other ...