Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A gentle snow blankets the rocks and barren trees along a trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I was fortunate enough ...

The Great Smoky Mountains offer the kind of escape that makes slowing down feel almost effortless. This Tennessee getaway ...

One of the most popular hiking trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will close intermittently in the coming weeks ...

Hiking through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is never a bad idea, but the nature sanctuary is home to drives that ...

You don’t have to go far from the parking lot to start unlocking the secrets around Cosby – secrets Mike Maples has spent a lifetime discovering. Maples has been hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...

Maples has been hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for more than 40 years. He’s written books about different sections of the park, and most recently finished his book on Cosby, which ...