Six months after hurricane floods tore through Tennessee and North Carolina, historic Cataloochee Valley sites will welcome back visitors.

The synchronous fireflies are always a popular spectacle. But with cuts at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, can you enter ...

Over six months after Hurricane Helene caused "substantial damage" in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, one of the park’s hardest-hit areas is reopening. Trails and some roads in Cataloochee ...

The National Park Service issued an advisory against bringing confetti into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in a social media post showing a park ranger picking up the tiny, colorful ...

Everything in the Appalachian range from northern Georgia to southern Virginia is often thought to be the Smokies. But, of ...

TOWNSEND (WATE) — Saturday afternoon, protests transpired at the Townsend entrance of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, marking the second time demonstrators rallied in support of park ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host its annual viewing opportunity for synchronous fireflies in June despite some operational changes. Vehicle lottery and peak view dates are expected to ...

More than a century ago, a physician named Chase Ambler who loved Buncombe County, was appalled to see devastation wrought by the overharvest of timber. Fires, habitat loss and floods plagued the ...

From lesser-known national parks to small towns with surprisingly impressive attractions, these underrated destinations run ...

Mike Meldrum could claim his current occupation as a third career - if he weren’t so careful to avoid calling it a job. “I want to have fun and feel like I’m doing something worthwhile with ...