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Ben Morton Overlook is the best spot for perfect sunsets.

Insider’s Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Our contributing editor, a chronic visitor to the park for five decades, offers her insights and tips for a celebration visit.
The total eclipsed moon sets behind the Holston Mountain fire tower in Carter County.

Shooting the Moon

No, it’s not the total solar eclipse coming to some parts of the country in April, but our determined writer/photographer is back with a magical look at a lunar eclipse in eastern Tennessee.
Dr. T. Keith Edwards, now 95, wrote the magic prescription for a 5-year-old in 1957.

The Perfect Medicine

Sometimes it’s the simplest, coldest dose.
A juvenile beaver eats the flower from the spatterdock (cow lily) that grows in the lake.

Beavers at Bays Mountain

Kingsport, Tennessee’s city-run park has served as an ideal setting for North America’s largest rodent to work and thrive.
State Street is the main street of Black Mountain.

When a Place Chooses You: Making Black Mountain, North Carolina, Home

How a small town named after the East’s tallest mountains outsmarted a couple on the search for a larger community.

Departments

Much of the Oklawaha Greenway is lined with trees.
The Good Walk

Walking Oklawaha Greenway

Located just minutes from downtown Hendersonville, North Carolina, this 3.25-mile scenic pathway winds through forests and wetlands.

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