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 ...

Black bears are native to the mountains of East Tennessee. A 16-year-old boy was ... about a 90-mile drive northwest from Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The boy was driving a Toyota Tacoma ...

National Park Service photo The most popular trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is ... which straddles the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. Tourists need only drive 6.7 miles ...

The power of the lesson came from the real-life, hands-on engagement in the forest, as students measured trees in the Look Rock area of Great Smoky Mountains ... in Tennessee’s Knox, Blount ...