Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite the federal government shutdown that went into effect on Oct. 1, Western North Carolina’s national park properties will ...

A beautiful landscape of the famous deep layers of the Blue Ridge Mountains under a cloudy blue sky near Ashville, North Carolina in the United States. - Mark Howard/Getty Images With such phenomenal ...

A view from Cataloochee Overlook in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Bryson City offers a glimpse of fall color as the leaves change. Funds from a nonprofit as well as from local and state ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will remain fully open and operational through Nov. 2 amid the federal government shutdown, thanks to continued funding from a group of nonprofits and local and ...

The National Park Service has reduced speed limits along the Blue Ridge Parkway as ongoing repairs require visitors to use ...