Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gentle snow blankets the rocks and barren trees along a trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was fortunate enough ...

National parks are the perfect destinations for outdoors lovers who want to get some exercise and fresh air, but which one ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At 105 feet, Ramsey Cascades is the tallest waterfall in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. For the first time in nearly three ...

Near Gatlinburg in Tennessee's Smoky Mountains, this unusual and picturesque waterfall spreads across dark rock ledges beside ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — A popular hiking trail is back open to the public, taking hikers through the park and into the Great Smoky Mountains seven days a week. The Ramsey Cascades Trail was only open ...

The traditional starting point of a trail that reaches from the highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park to the Outer Banks in North Carolina is now officially marked at the top of Kuwohi – ...

Hikers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will have one less trail to reach Mount LeConte most weekdays. Bullhead Trail in the park will close Monday through Thursday each week, excluding federal ...

Backcountry rangers Lydia Williams and Jordan Gibeault have almost reached their destination, Kephart Prong Shelter, when they purposefully veer off-trail. They descend a slight hill, emerge into a ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — If you’re planning a hike around New Year’s Day in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, one of its most popular trails will be closing during the first week of January ...

Somewhere after 2 p.m. on a sunny Wednesday in mid-March, the chaotic wind of a descending helicopter whipped the calm skies above the Appalachian Trail near Icewater Spring Shelter. Four people — two ...

A trail over 1,000 miles long connects communities, culture and friendship. And the journey starts (or ends) at the highest peak in the Smokies.