For thousands of years, Indigenous Koyukon Athabascans called North America’s highest mountain Denali, meaning “The High One.” However, in the late 1800s, a prospector named it Mount ...

North Carolina is home to a host of eclectic small towns and popular big cities, but it also houses two of the most gorgeous ...

At 5,506 feet, Beech Mountain tops the list as the coolest town in North Carolina and the highest resort area in eastern North America. While it is a popular destination in the summertime ...

The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee are the tallest mountains in the Appalachian chain, hosting the world's greatest diversity of plant, animal, and insect life of any region in a ...