The trip made me develop a serious appreciation for the sheer diversity and beauty of U.S. national parks. I also realized that some national parks are conveniently clustered together or within a few ...

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

The Appalachian Trail is one of the most famous hiking attractions in the U.S., and on the Virginia portion lies a town sure ...

Roughly 190,000 acres of U.S. Forest Service lands were impacted in Tropical Storm Helene, a Forest Service district ranger ...

Blowing Rock, North Carolina stands as the antidote to modern chaos – a mountain sanctuary where the air is fresher, the pace ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway, often called “America’s Favorite Drive,” runs right past town, providing easy access to countless ...

Rows of nostalgic, low-slung motor lodges rest on the aprons of towering mountains. A population just double that of the LSU ...

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North Carolina crew jumps in to help prep logs For help, LaFond reached out to the Carolina Mountain Club, which maintains 94 miles of the Appalachian Trail north of the park. Most CMC members ...

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge ... (An alternative route takes hikers around a closed section along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line in Mitchell County.) ...