When you think about the world’s highest mountains, Mount Everest probably comes to mind first. The planet’s roof is actually ...

Long before the Great Smokies’ highest peak was named in 1859 for Thomas Clingman, a U.S. senator who would later become a Confederate brigadier general, the Cherokee people knew it by a different ...

Q: I was told that Mount Rogers in Grayson County was once a volcano. I would like to know if there is anything to it. Also, how did Buffalo Mountain get its unique shape? I relocated here to Roanoke ...

President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he will “bring back the name of Mount McKinley” to the Alaska mountain known as Denali that is the tallest in the United States. The mountain, referred to as ...

A group working to find the graves of Veterans in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has identified three more veterans who are buried in the park.