The novelist Richard Powers and I were sitting on the banks of a river in the Great Smoky Mountains ... t always have to be about people’s soap operas and domestic, bourgeois, modern American ...

Tennessee and North Carolina are a few of the first places that come to mind for Southerners seeking a mountain escape. Of ...

A 6,643-foot peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been renamed “Kuwohi,” which means “mulberry place” in the ...

After 165 years, officials have changed the name of a popular Great Smoky Mountains peak that honored a Confederate general.

The Flint Gap Fire that was started by lightning on Aug. 26 still is not contained and continues to burn slowly in a remote area of Great Smoky Mountain National Park, according to the National Park ...

“The Great Smoky National Park team was proud to support this effort to officially restore the mountain and to recognize its importance to the Cherokee People,” said Superintendent Cassius Cash.

The highest peak at Great Smoky Mountains National Park is officially reverting to its Cherokee name more than 150 years ...

Smoky sunshine continues this afternoon with ... During this timeframe, mountain ranges could measure 1 to 2 inches of rainfall. Valley locations could see 0.25 to 0.75 an inch of rain, isolated ...

The Flint Gap Fire that was started by lightning on Aug. 26 still is not contained and continues to burn slowly in a remote area of Great Smoky Mountain National Park, according to the National ...

After being a stay-at-home mom for years, a Preston, Idaho, woman wanted a place to sell items she loved to shop for a little ...

The Cherokee name for the mountain translates to “mulberry place.” “The Great Smoky National Park team was proud to support this effort to officially restore the mountain and to recognize ...