The country icon owns numerous businesses around her hometown resort, which celebrates its 40th anniversary this year.

Beginning in June, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is hosting programs once a month featuring American Sign Language ...

In 2022, the festival moved to its current home at the Townsend Visitor’s Center, just outside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park entrance.

Taking the family to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge or the Smokies? See our recommendations for kid-friendly activities to check ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. (WATE) — Bagpipes, kilts, and battle-axes will return to Townsend May 17 and 18 for the 43rd Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival & Games. The annual festival will be held from 8 a.m ...

Billboards, such as one promoting campground closures at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, are crediting DOGE for the budget cuts.

I’m sitting alone in the cockpit of the boat anchored at Cape Lookout National Seashore off the coast of North Carolina in ...

Rangers and multiple agencies responded to a suspicious device on the Blue Ridge Parkway near Asheville, leading to ...

OK, there are probably no actual living salamanders downtown, but instead, life-sized bronze newt statues are hidden on buildings and signs around Gay Street and Market Square. These additions are ...

WorldAtlas writers included Boone, Bryson City and more on a list of the "coolest" NC towns for a 2025 summer vacation.

America’s national parks have been a golden goose,” writes Ted Kerasote in an op-ed for The New York Times. “The question now ...