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Tennessee Region

Tennessee’s Smokies are as vast as the view from the state’s highest point, Clingman’s Dome or as cozy as the sheltered pioneer settlement of Cade’s Cove.

Pirate Days at Smith Mountain Lake

The fourth annual weekend-long event promises fun for all, from pirate ship battles to parades and much, much more.

Seeing Southern: Climbing Higher at Aska Lodge

As a traveler, we come across destinations for which we long to return. Time and geography make it impossible sometimes. However, when you discover perfection as we have, you take advantage. Aska Lodge in Blue Ridge, Georgia, is such a place.

Mountain Curios: The Wizard of South Mountain

Many believed in the magic of Wizard Zittle to cure their ills and change their fortune. His own fortune changed after he broke the magicians’ code.

Mountain Curios: The Little Train that Could is Now a Rail Trail

The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway survived war, the depression, changing extraction goals and much more. Now it has a new life.

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Tennessee Region

Tennessee’s Smokies are as vast as the view from the state’s highest point, Clingman’s Dome or as cozy as the sheltered pioneer settlement of Cade’s Cove.
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Pirate Days at Smith Mountain Lake

The fourth annual weekend-long event promises fun for all, from pirate ship battles to parades and much, much more.
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Seeing Southern: Climbing Higher at Aska Lodge

As a traveler, we come across destinations for which we long to return. Time and geography make it impossible sometimes. However, when you discover perfection as we have, you take advantage. Aska Lodge in Blue Ridge, Georgia, is such a place.
A group of unidentified Zittles clusters around the family home in this undated photo.

Mountain Curios: The Wizard of South Mountain

Many believed in the magic of Wizard Zittle to cure their ills and change their fortune. His own fortune changed after he broke the magicians’ code.
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Mountain Curios: The Little Train that Could is Now a Rail Trail

The Virginia Blue Ridge Railway survived war, the depression, changing extraction goals and much more. Now it has a new life.
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Departments

At Coopers Rock State Forest, new Stargazer cabins invite guests to look up through skylights and telescopes.
Country Roads

Even Closer to Almost Heaven

New Stargazer cabins at Coopers Rock State Forest offer a skyward escape in the mountains of West Virginia.

June 29, 2026
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Country Roads

A Mountain Tradition Turns 90 

Visitors flock to Galax, Virginia, each summer for the Old Fiddlers’ Convention, a days-long celebration of Appalachian music.

June 29, 2026
Synchronous Fireflies
Creature Feature

The Light Fantastic

Fireflies are struggling with the effects of artificial light.

June 29, 2026

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