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Back in Touch With Our National Parks: The Smokies

South of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains National Park sprawls with high elevations, world-class species numbers and much more.

Photo Essay: Up Close With Creatures

Our contributing photographers employed a combination of stealth, care and great lenses to be able to treat us to this array of mountain wildlife upon the land.

Back in Touch With Our National Parks: Shenandoah!

North of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the ridge line provides the spine of the park and the route of the Skyline Drive, as other features spill down the mountainsides.

Bear Man: Big Mammals in the Smokies

Bill Stiver credits “blind luck” for longtime career looking after large wildlife.

Flat Top Manor: The Estate that Moses & Bertha Built

The couple’s blend of morality, planning and civic responsibility lives on in a property that Bertha Cone did all she could to keep from becoming part of the Blue Ridge Parkway, much less the signature attraction that is undergoing major renovations.

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The year-round lure of the Great Smokies is evident in this view of an autumn sunrise from Clingman’s Dome, the highest point in the park.

Back in Touch With Our National Parks: The Smokies

South of the Blue Ridge Parkway, Great Smoky Mountains National Park sprawls with high elevations, world-class species numbers and much more.
A curious elk investigates the Lake Junaluska Overlook sign on Heintooga Ridge Road, a spur adjacent to the Blue Ridge Parkway near Cherokee, North Carolina.

Photo Essay: Up Close With Creatures

Our contributing photographers employed a combination of stealth, care and great lenses to be able to treat us to this array of mountain wildlife upon the land.
Hawksbill Mountain is above 4,000 feet and offers a fine 2-mile hike.

Back in Touch With Our National Parks: Shenandoah!

North of the Blue Ridge Parkway, the ridge line provides the spine of the park and the route of the Skyline Drive, as other features spill down the mountainsides.
Bill Stiver has been luckier than many long-time National Park Service career employees in that he hasn’t had to hop from park to park to progress up the ladder.

Bear Man: Big Mammals in the Smokies

Bill Stiver credits “blind luck” for longtime career looking after large wildlife.
Flat Top Manor maintained its stately appearance in this 1953 photo, when it had become Blue Ridge Parkway property.

Flat Top Manor: The Estate that Moses & Bertha Built

The couple’s blend of morality, planning and civic responsibility lives on in a property that Bertha Cone did all she could to keep from becoming part of the Blue Ridge Parkway, much less the signature attraction that is undergoing major renovations.
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