Maggie Valley is a popular elk-spotting area. There have been recent reports of dangerously close interactions and people ...

A growing number of visitors are discovering southern Illinois as a travel destination amid a recent effort to entice more ...

Sunset at Cowee Mountain Overlook deserves its own special category of natural wonder. As the sun dips toward the horizon, the sky becomes a canvas for colors that seem almost artificially enhanced – ...

The most interesting towns in the United States bring together the best of a beautiful country. These 10 distinctive ...

Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are the cities that likely first come to mind when you think about the Great Smoky Mountains in ...

There’s a place in western North Carolina where the mountains ripple like waves on a blue-green ocean, where clouds cast dramatic shadows across ancient peaks, and where locals sometimes “accidentally ...

The publication has given attention to WNC many times, including coolest towns for summer vacations, most beautiful drives and strangest attractions this year alone. A new list, honoring nine towns as ...

The best way to explore the wonders of a national park is on foot. But among the dozens of national parks across the country, which ones are the best for hiking?

Interstate 40 remains closed in both directions near the North Carolina/Tennessee line due to a rockslide and flooding.

Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its ...

Traffic along Interstate 40 in Cocke County is being diverted due to a possible rockslide, the Tennessee Department of ...

The tariffs wars involving global economic powerhouses such as the U.S. and China are being felt even in such distinctly local places as your regional amusement park.