Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians can once again harvest sochan in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
A historic signing of an agreement at the Oconaluftee ...
Mike Maples: The Man, The Jedi, The Legend
Mike on Charlies Bunion (Photo by: Susan Rudd)
An article written in memoriam of Mike Maples, a simple man fr...
NC bill would require all cyclists to register their bicycles
House Bill 157, introduced by Representative Jeffrey Elmore, R-Wilkes, would require all NC cy...
The East Tennessee hiking community mourns ‘Smoky Mountain Jedi’
After a brief battle with brain cancer, Mike Maples passed away on March 5 at 66 years old....
Yosemite’s lottery for Half Dome hiking permits opens March 13
Yosemite’s lottery for permits to hike Half Dome was supposed to take place on March 1 but ha...
Across the southwest, cacti are being stolen from public lands in record numbers
From the towering saguaros in Saguaro National Park to tiny cacti species p...
KODAK, Tenn. – Friends of the Smokies announced Thursday that it will temporarily fund the reopening of Sugarlands Visitor Center near Gatlinburg, Tenn., and Oc...
Darius Nabors, who is on a quest to visit all 59 U.S. National Parks in celebration if 100th anniversary of NPS, gives us his latest update from the road. ...
SCAR is the name for the "Smokies Challenge Adventure Run," a runners' challenge that involves running the entire 72 miles of the Appalachian Trail that go across the Smoky Mountains, all in under 24 hours. ...
A wildlife biologist in Great Smoky Mountain National Park recently discovered a sow black bear and three of her cubs denning 50 feet off the ground inside the hollowed out cavity of an old growth buckeye tree....
2015 was an especially big year for the outdoors. BRO covered everything from record-setting runs to lumbersexuals. There were tragic deaths—and close calls. Here are the stories that generated the most chatter in 2015...
This week in 'The Dirt’—Smoky Mountain bear attack victim speaks, young man dies after fall from Virginia’s Crab Tree Falls, Subaru helps reduce National Park waste, and more. ...
