Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...

RAILWAY, ONE OF THE OLDEST TOURIST ATTRACTIONS IN THE UNITED STATES FOR MORE THAN 150 YEARS, THE COG HAS LIFTED RIDERS TO THRILLING HEIGHTS INTO THE SKY AND ONTO NEW ENGLAND’S HIGHEST PEAK. BUT THE ...

It’s the perfect time of year to plan a quick trip to the north Georgia mountains for hiking, checking out the many waterfalls, exploring the area towns and restaurants, and leaf peeping later in the ...

Shortly after 4.30am, the day’s first call to prayer drifts across the mountains. A gauzy predawn light hangs over the Ait Mizane Valley, where a dozen villages are scattered across the rough slopes.

The Franklin Mountains State Park is a serene wonder found in our own backyard. For hours, hikers escape city life as they trek along our mountains, feeling the breeze of the desert wind, hearing only ...

An experienced climber from New York state died in Colorado after falling several hundred feet while he was hiking in the mountains. It happened on a 14er near Telluride. The victim's name hasn't been ...

The first thing I heard was a disconcerting huffing and puffing in the bushes followed by the crescendo of something large and heavy running through the undergrowth in our direction. "Get back!" my ...

Searches have been taking place for a British teenager missing for more than a week since going hiking in mountains in ...