Fall is arriving in Western North Carolina, a vital season for travel and hospitality. Hear from fall color forecasters and ...

From the first time he hiked in the Smoky Mountains, Carlos Campbell was an enthusiastic proponent of Great Smoky Mountains ...

A sense of adventure awaits those willing to sleep under the stars in one of Scotland’s most dramatic landscapes. Spending a night under the stars in the Cairngorms National Park promises ...

It is no secret that tourists can sometimes behave very badly. There are endless stories of people in European museums trying to snap selfies with priceless artifacts, only to knock them over and ...

CHICAGO - The first National Guard troops sent to Chicago by President Donald Trump arrived Tuesday at an Army training center outside the city. The Associated Press saw military personnel in uniforms ...

Registration for the 2025/2026 national service year will officially begin on Wednesday, October 8, and end on Wednesday, October 15, the Acting Director-General of the National Service Authority (NSA ...

As Congress remains at an impasse on an agreement to fund government operations, several sites under the National Park Service (NPS) have brought their operations to a halt. Across the country, parks ...

Several visitors just couldn’t wait for the weekend to get into Great Falls Park in northern Virginia. They drove up to the park’s main gate on Friday morning, and, seeing a closed entrance and three ...

Alaskan climber Balin Miller fell to his death on Wednesday, following a climbing accident on El Capitan, the famed vertical rock formation in Yosemite National Park. He was 23 years old. “Balin was ...

Sites and lands in Colorado operated by the National Park Service are open, but “some services may be limited or unavailable,” according to the agency’s website. Phone lines for all four national ...

A federal government shutdown has cut off services at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Restrooms will remain open and trash collection will continue as they are considered essential services.

Matthew Chapman is a video game designer who attended Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and lives in San Marcos, Texas. Before joining Raw Story, he wrote for Shareblue and AlterNet, specializing in ...