Yellowstone is magnificent. Yosemite is breathtaking. We all know they’re totally majestic. We also know that visiting either ...

From Yosemite National Park’s Glacier Point, hikers can witness Half Dome bathed in alpenglow. Outdoorspeople have been seeking sunsets for at least a couple of centuries. New York's Catskills tempted ...

Visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for Memorial Day weekend should expect crowds, traffic and limited ...

The agency expects the park to be far busier than usual.

An 86-year-old Fenway Park employee is at the center of a social media campaign to raise enough money to help him retire. Ken Avery, a ticket taker for Red Sox games at Fenway Park, was featured ...

The country’s most-visited national park is getting a little bigger. A plan to expand Great Smoky Mountains National Park is in motion, involving land previously owned by 19th-century Cades Cove ...

BLOUNT COUNTY, Tenn. (WVLT) - Foothills Land Conservancy (FLC) announced it has acquired the ‘Oliver Tract’ and intends to permanently transfer the land to the National Park Service to be incorporated ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. (WATE) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is getting bigger thanks to a land transfer from the Foothills Land Conservancy. FLC is set to close on the “Oliver Tract,” a more than ...

Austin Turner is a web producer at CBS News Los Angeles. An Inland Empire native, Austin earned a degree in journalism from San Jose State University in 2020. Before joining CBS News in 2025, he ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — The Foothills Land Conservancy announced it has purchased a piece of land in Townsend, with plans to "substantially" expand the footprint of the Great Smoky ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WJW) – “Aggressive bear activity” has closed several trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Ramsey Cascades Trail remained closed after initially being shut down May ...