Dolly Parton chats with Rick Bragg on her Tennessee childhood, the real Jolene, and Dollywood's 40th anniversary.

The mountains are sometimes called the “Smokies” and are best known as the home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

I had the chance to visit the Rocky Mountain National Park, and I couldn't help but compare it to my home, the Great Smoky ...

Skip the pool and head to this Tennessee swimming spot in the Great Smoky Mountains for a relaxing, crowd-free day of tubing, ...

Sunny sea-level Savannah, Georgia, is known for a lot of things — historic colonial beauty, low country cuisine and a ...

You’ve got no choice but to grow up fast as a baby black bear. This babbling brook in the hills of Great Smoky Mountains National Park might as well have been a full blown river for this bear cub. The ...

After being closed for three years, the Ramsey Cascades Trail reopened, giving access to the tallest waterfall in Great Smoky ...

Amid this modern era of rock music, Blackberry Smoke is the absolute epitome of what it means to plug in your guitar, crank ...

National parks will provide adventurers with some of the most incredible views and experiences. But, there are some risks involved that require the right attent ...

The power of the lesson came from the real-life, hands-on engagement in the forest, as students measured trees in the Look Rock area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find out how much ...

The Haywood Ice Fest continues with a winter birding walk at Lake Junaluska, snowball wars at Smoky Mountain Sk8way, an ice ...

Spencer Boldman of 'Lab Rats' and 'Welcome to Chippendales' will play country music legend Ronnie Milsap in a new biopic.