Less crowded but not less beautiful, these underrated U.S. national parks are worth visiting to avoid the crowds and enjoy beautiful views.

New River Trail State Park last week announced the opening of two trails within the New River Trail.

GLEN JEAN — Friends of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve has a new leader.

Tim Hupp, president of the Great Eastern Trail Association, told Friends of Hixson that Chattanooga is the biggest city by far on the Great Eastern route from New York to Alabama.

An informal group – fueled by coffee and ideas – and another group, composed of engaged middle school students and their teachers, are plotting a future for the area north of the bridge. The New River ...

Uh-oh, this doesn’t look good. A kayaker is careening down the narrow winding river, letting the current pull her towards danger instead of paddling like mad away from it. “Stay hard right,” shouts ...

Nature’s splendor moved indoors on Sunday. On April 6 at the Tamarack Marketplace Conference Center Ballroom in Beckley, the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (NRGNPP), a unit of the National ...

The town hosts the State Fair of West Virginia each August, when the population swells from about 4,000 to “everybody and ...

Some places have also become secondary old growth forests, meaning the forests were cut down at some point but have grown back with many of the characteristics of an old growth.

If you're looking for a state park to add to your bucket list, there's one in Vermont that houses a beautiful glacial feature ...

White-nose syndrome, a disease that is fatal to bats and which has been moving across the country in recent years, has been ...