The Shining Rock Wilderness and Headwaters State Forest have reopened after heavy rains helped contain recent wildfires, ...

The largest wilderness area in North Carolina has reopened after heavy rainfall helped contain and control a wildfire, ...

Uncover the haunting past of this North Carolina park, which was once a site of devastation but is now a haven of waterfalls ...

During a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 1995, Don Barger climbed Chilhowee Mountain hoping to gaze across the valley below. All he saw was a wall of gray haze. Today, he said, he ...

I visited all the major US national parks and ranked them based on factors like beauty and crowd size. My favorites include ...

Whitewater Falls near Cashiers, North Carolina, fits that description perfectly – an 811-foot natural spectacle that’s been doing its thing since before humans invented the concept of spring break.

Roan Mountain State Park exists as a perfect pocket of Appalachian splendor, where the Doe River winds through valleys ...

Once 2,000 square miles in Virginia and North Carolina, the swamp today is perhaps one-tenth that size. Allison Shelley The worse it gets, as I wade and stumble through the Great Dismal Swamp ...

A firing squad is set to kill a South Carolina inmate on Friday, the second time the state will have carried out that method in the past five weeks. North Carolina’s Supreme Court ruled that ...