Discover 20 miles of backcountry trails, towering quartzite cliffs, and primitive camping in Tennessee's most diverse under-the-radar mountain paradise.

Scientists reckon they've solved a 180-million-year deep-Earth mystery that could explain why the Appalachian Mountains are still standing. For a long time, it's thought a huge area of hot rock buried ...

After recording some of the hottest conditions of the year Tuesday, forecasts show Alabama will get some relief from the ...

Volunteers are still rebuilding parts of the iconic Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee nearly a year after Hurricane ...

Weather Smoke from Appalachian Mountain wildfires in the air above northeastern Pennsylvania If you smell smoke, it could be from wildfires burning in the Appalachian Mountains to our south.

T wo separate pairs of hikers needed help from rangers and the National Guard after becoming stuck overnight on Katahdin’s ...

A bold new theory reimagines the NAA as a "Rayleigh–Taylor instability"—a geological term for when heavy, cold rock begins to ...

In a rugged patch of the Appalachian Trail in eastern Tennessee, volunteers size up a massive, gnarled tree lying on its side ...

Lots of folks in the Mid-Atlantic looked forward to a beautiful Tuesday afternoon only to encounter gloomy skies and frigid temperatures—and the Appalachian Mountains are to blame.

Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. “Hill Women: Finding Family and a Way Forward in the Appalachian Mountains,” Ballantine Books, by Cassie Chambers ...