New U.S. Topo maps are out, and the quadrangles covering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park now display trails, campgrounds, visitor centers, boundaries and other visitor information for the first time.  “Across the country, visitors to national parks will benefit from these new features on maps, but it’s especially fitting that the nation’s most visited

As the Smokies is about to enter one of its busiest times of the year, the federal government is on the verge of a shutdown. A stopgap funding bill was stalled Tuesday as Democrats demanded money to help Flint, Michigan address its lead-contaminated water crisis. Republicans want to address the Flint water crisis after the

The closest the Cable sisters can get to home these days is by floating above it in a boat. This is how they spent the third Sunday in May, reminiscing about what lay beneath Fontana Lake back when this North Carolina land was a spring-fed family farm ringed by mountains. “Our house sat right out