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

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 ...

20-year-old Luke Williams, an Eagle Scout, has been in scouting since he was 6. He is an accomplished and distinguished scout ...

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.

Master Sgt. Roddie Edmonds to finally receive U.S. Army's Medal of Honor posthumously for saving Jewish servicemen during World War II.

A $750,000 donation from the Boyd Foundation is enough for Friends of the Smokies to complete their $9 million ‘Forever Places Endowment’. 6 News learned more about what ...

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.

After six years of fundraising, the Friends of the Smokies have raised enough to support their $9 million Forever Places ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WVLT) - A popular road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is scheduled to close for 10 days in February. According to the park, Cades Cove Loop Road will be closed for ...

Lincoln Hills, once the largest African American recreational resort west of the Mississippi, was created in response to segregation. Its enduring impact is now on display at History Colorado. New ...

This story has been updated to reflect roads that have reopened or closed again as of Feb. 6. It took several days for roads through Great Smoky Mountains National Park to gradually reopen as snow and ...

Several roads through Great Smoky Mountains National Park remain closed Feb. 3 after a winter storm dumped “significant snowfall” in the popular park and across East Tennessee. But roads are slowly ...