Stay up to date with the location and size of fires with our North Carolina wildfire and smoke map. The map is interactive, ...

If you’ve been searching for a weekend getaway that’s a quaint step back in time while immersing yourself into the local ...

For the perfect North Carolina mountain getaway, look no further than this historic small town located between the Great ...

The most popular trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is closing ... which straddles the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. Tourists need only drive 6.7 miles southeast from the ...

A burn ban is in place for all of North Carolina, including Great Smoky Mountains National Park ... You can track the wildfires with an interactive fire map, which is updated hourly, shows where the ...

The best way to get around Great Smoky Mountains National Park is by car ... just south of Knoxville. In North Carolina, the closest airport is the Asheville Regional Airport (AVL), about 60 ...

A venomous catfish long believed extinct is “back from the dead” in the Great Smoky Mountains National ... along the Tennessee-North Carolina border, the museum says. The fish, which has ...

NORTH CAROLINA, USA — The National Park Service will reopen some roads, trails and facilities inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after Hurricane Helene passed through. They're all in ...

A burn ban was still in place for all of North Carolina as of March 31. Great Smoky Mountains National Park also has issued a burn ban. Todd Runkle is the Carolinas Connect editor and also a ...

While Great Smoky Mountains sits between Tennessee and North Carolina, the air pollution that plagues the park comes from facilities across the Southeast region and even as far away as Illinois, ...