I’m Mark Oppold with an American Agriculture History Minute.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains takes people through thick forests and across grassy mountaintop balds. This year it also includes a short boat ride. Floodwaters from the ...

A researcher was wading through a shallow stream in the Appalachian Mountains of Tennessee while conducting a survey for road construction when he came across a rare clawed creature that didn’t look ...

According to Appalachian District Ranger Jennifer ... in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee and North Carolina. Roughly 159 million people use national forests annually.

The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are the tallest mountains in the Appalachian chain, hosting the world's greatest diversity of plant, animal, and insect life of any region in a ...

A flight crew from the Tennessee Army National Guard, based at Joint Base McGhee-Tyson, rescued an injured hiker over the weekend in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials said.

Hiking the Appalachian Trail through the Blue Ridge Mountains takes people through ... severing two sections of the Appalachian Trail near Erwin, Tennessee. Crossing the river required a 3.6 ...

Bristol, Virginia, a small city nestled in the Appalachian Mountains, was recently named one of HGTV's "50 Most Charming Small Towns in America." Along with its twin city in Tennessee, Bristol is ...

In the mountains of eastern Kentucky ... Home Funeral would become one of Shelby Lee Adams’ best-known portraits of Appalachian life. Adams wouldn’t see Nay Bug again for 18 years.

About 323 of those miles are found in North Carolina, including 226.6 miles along the Tennessee border. The North Carolina section offers many of the Appalachian Trail's highest peaks, several ...

LOUISVILLE, Tenn. — The Tennessee Army National Guard rescued an injured hiker in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday. The National Guard and the Tennessee Emergency Management ...