More than 12 million visitors went to Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2024. Travelers can explore its misty peaks and waterfall-filled valleys via a mountain-skimming scenic highway or by ...

Outside of some spot showers and sprinkles today through Tuesday morning, we’re talking a typical summertime forecast with ...

The United States has a proud history of preserving its natural beauty through national parks. Each year, millions of ...

Stretching 469 miles through Virginia and North Carolina, it’s the most visited site in the National Park System—and for good reason. From beautiful waterfalls just steps off the road to the route's ...

Continents would scurry across the globe, oceans would open and close, and new mountains would shoot up toward the sky. Yet even as mountains rise, they also periodically sink back down when the ...

While the city tends to celebrate the arrival of Spring with pomp and gusto, Niwa has taken a quieter route: grounded, ...

Jan Beutel was half-watching a live stream of Kleines Nesthorn, a mountain peak in the Swiss Alps, when he realized its cacophony of creaks and rumbles was getting louder. He dropped his work ...

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

And yet, when I got to San Francisco, I couldn’t see across the bay for all the fog. That was my eureka moment: the sky was full of water. Why couldn’t we use it to fight what was happening on ...

A year ago this month, a couple in their 80s, great-great grandparents with no known enemies, were shot to death in their home on a country road in Montcalm County. (June 16, 2025) ...

Synchronous fireflies illuminated Great Smoky Mountains National Park recently, and Knox News captured glowing moments from this year’s light show. The Smokies hold the distinction of being one ...