Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the mountain ridges of Tennessee and North Carolina, drawing visitors from ...

Discover 20 miles of backcountry trails, towering quartzite cliffs, and primitive camping in Tennessee's most diverse under-the-radar mountain paradise.

In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side ...

The Appalachian Trail was the brainchild of Benton MacKaye. MacKaye was born in 1879 and spent his childhood in the mountain community of Shirley Center, Massachusetts.

And many people believe the high rate of mysterious phenomena in the Appalachian Mountains, a 2,000-mile range that spans Newfoundland to northern Alabama, is due to their geological age.

While the mountains and foothills are not located along an active tectonic plate boundary, the region still has minor earthquakes linked to old fault lines along the Appalachian Mountains.

Lots of folks in the Mid-Atlantic looked forward to a beautiful Tuesday afternoon only to encounter gloomy skies and frigid temperatures—and the Appalachian Mountains are to blame.

Our favorite hiking trails are usually the result of back-breaking physical labor. In the White Mountains, Appalachian Mountain Club trail crews do most of this work with hand tools and sheer effort.

CASA of the Appalachian Mountains currently has five volunteers to represent the seven counties it serves. We spoke to the staff who have been hard at work looking for new volunteers.