Experience the best the Carolina mountains have to offer with this stunning little town filled with natural beauty and plenty ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — With spring right around the corner, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is gearing up for the next round of hikers. So which hikes are perfect as the weather ...

There are many things that can make hiking potentially risky, but one of the most dangerous Great Smoky Mountain trails has an unassuming threat.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Spring is here in East Tennessee and spring means wildflowers. There are over 1,500 kinds of flowering plants in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Blooming flowers can be ...

Sixers—mountains higher than 6,000 feet—have magical appeal in the Appalachians because they come with bragging rights (tallest in the East) as well as a cool series of habitat transitions and the ...

For more than 30 years, Spartanburg's Steve Oliphant has made it a habit of trudging up, over and through some of eastern America's toughest terrain in the Great Smoky Mountains. The 57-year-old ...

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK (WATE) — While the famous Laurel Falls Trail is closed and several other trails remain closed due to damage from Helene, there are still many wonderful things to ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — UPDATE THURSDAY: Great Smoky Mountains National Park has reopened two popular trails to walkers and hikers following a decrease in bear activity. The popular ...

Laurel Falls Trail attracts as many as 375,000 hikers annually, so many that the trail is crumbling under foot as endless lines of hikers shuffle toward an 80-foot waterfall at the 1.3-mile mark.