While Chris Turner and a friend hiked the Appalachian Trail three years ago, they hatched a plan to hike Mount Kilimanjaro, ...

The public meeting to discuss the Chestnut Ridge Greenway Trail Feasibility Study set off on the right foot Tuesday night, but then hit a rocky path. The conservancy owns a four-mile section of the ...

In early April, a U.S. Forest Service office in east Tennessee’s Cherokee National Forest issued a memo inviting the public ...

As Tennessee’s oldest town, Jonesborough wears its history like a comfortable heirloom quilt—valued not for perfection but for the stories woven into every patch and stitch. Founded in 1779 when ...

Tennessee’s oldest town sits nestled in the rolling hills of Washington County like a well-worn book waiting to be rediscovered on a shelf of shiny new hardcovers.

How growing up in the "cone of uncertainty" changed my life - even when I thought I had left it behind. Until Hurricane ...

After the devastation from Hurricane Helene, the Nolichucky Outdoor Learning Institute is 'looking ahead' as it partners with ...

A long-awaited natural spectacle is unfolding in western North Carolina and along the Tennessee border. Brood XIV cicadas emerged from the ground after 17 years of dormancy. Great Smoky Mountains Park ...

DAMASCUS, Va. — Thru-hikers, vendors, musicians and trail enthusiasts all gathered in Damascus Friday for the 38th Appalachian Trail Days Festival. The event is set to bring in an estimated ...

Novelist Ernest Ingersoll, quoted in “On Trails” I’ve been thinking a lot about the story in the news of a woman who got lost while hiking the Appalachian Trail. She died after 26 days ...

BRISTOL — In the past 45 years, about a dozen people have died at the hands of others along the Appalachian Trail ... a password to enter the trail along the Tennessee-North Carolina border.