From Great Smoky Mountains to North Cascades, here are 12 national parks you can drive to and visit without paying an entry ...

A Tennessee mountain viewpoint with wide-open vistas and calm, breezy overlooks that help melt stress fast and make the whole ...

After all, this gem of the Volunteer State is one of the main reasons we named East Tennessee one of our best places to go in ...

Savor riverside burgers and onion rings at BJ’s Diner in Cherokee, just minutes from Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Explore North Carolina’s reservoir where entire towns were submerged, blending natural beauty with haunting history beneath ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the busiest National park in the U.S., but with the park service cutting nearly a quarter of all positions last year, volunteers have made up the difference.

The famous synchronized fireflies are just one of many types of insects that fall under the purview of national park ...

After my favorite mountain towns started to get too crowded with tourists, I found a new favorite entrance to the Great Smoky ...

A Friends of the Smokies program that preserves historic structures in the Great Smoky Mountains is now fully funded thanks to a $750,000 gift.

Democracy was fragile when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1940. He traveled through Knoxville and Chattanooga before speaking at Newfound Gap.