2024

Both banks of this section of Virginia’s Shenandoah River are under conservation easement.

Virginia: National Leader in Preservation

Legislation from 1999 has reached a milestone in land protections.
Hazard’s stories, both past and present, are told beautifully in murals throughout downtown.

Hazard, Kentucky: ‘Queen City’ Shines Bright

Once the mining center of the southeastern coalfields, Hazard is reimagining its heart center.
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The Mountain Q&A – Lisa Bottomley: Advancing America’s Scenic Drive

She grew up five minutes from the Blue Ridge Parkway, and this 469-mile road has always been a part of her life. She now directs its official marketing partner: the Blue Ridge Parkway Association.
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Singing in the Garden: Buried Treasure

We do not follow maps to buried treasure and X never, ever marks the spot. —Indiana Jones
The bridge over Canes Creek leads to the Issaqueena Falls Overlook.

Stumphouse Tunnel: A Tunnel, A Falls and History

This South Carolina mountain walk is the result of an effort of save the land for public use.

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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