Recent spring rains have given us the opportunity to enjoy a spectacular array of June wildflowers. We have a number of ...

There’s something about the combination of forested trails and dramatic mountain backdrops that I never get tired of.

Some people hear that Great Smoky Mountains is America’s most-visited national park and think it’s a reason to stay away. The ...

Rows of nostalgic, low-slung motor lodges rest on the aprons of towering mountains. A population just double that of the LSU ...

Just 20 miles east of the picturesque coastline in Maine, on a long winding country road, beyond an unassuming sign, tucked ...

More than two centuries after William Bartram explored the Southern Appalachian foothills, his words, like his footsteps, ...

The stretch of the Appalachian Trail from Carver ... United States and ranges in Canada. Red spruce, mountain ash, Fraser fir and wild berry bushes all coat the mountainside above Carvers ...

Pennsylvania's state flower is the mountain laurel.Gov. Gifford Pinchot chose it more than 90 years ago. The General Assembly passed two bills, each naming a different favorite shrub – mountain ...

Catoctin Mountain, home to the presidential ... and the song by the same title: Appalachian Spring. Because the original tree was found in the wild, it couldn't be patented, but the name is ...

Seasons can come and go in the temperate regions of the world with many false starts, but in the Appalachian Mountains ... Amalenchier flowers in April in West Virginia. While mountain folk in ...

Sally joins her best friend for an epic hike on on the Appalachian Trail ... It’s the first of a mountain of misadventures in Sally Chaffin Brooks’ comedic memoir, “Going to Maine.” ...