There’s a certain magic to stepping outside before sunrise, lacing up your boots, and disappearing into a trail shrouded in mist. The world feels quieter, ... Read more The post Best U.S. Trails to ...

Embracing Nature's Majesty Yosemite National Park, located in California's Sierra Nevada mountains, is famed for its granite cliffs, waterfalls, clear streams, and giant sequoia trees. Towering ...

Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the national park and the destination of many visitors who've made the steep hike to its summit, will now be called Kuwohi, according to the National Park Service.

Clingmans Dome - highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains finally has its Cherokee name restored.

The federal board on Sept. 18 unanimously approved the renaming of Clingmans Dome, the observation tower-topped mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Mountains-to-Sea Trail stretches 1,175 miles from Clingmans Dome in the Smoky Mountains to Jockey’s Ridge on the Outer Banks.

Once the road closes for winter, you'll have to hike 14 to 16 miles round trip under strenuous and cold conditions.

The mission brought the flight crew to an area near Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the park. Crew members spotted the hiker on the ground, already receiving treatment from park rangers.

Long before the misty peaks along the Tennessee-North Carolina border were called the Great Smoky Mountains, the tallest of them was known not as Clingmans Dome but as Kuwohi.

Long before the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's highest peak was named "Clingmans Dome," the Cherokee people called the mountain "Kuwahi" for hundreds of years. Now, tribal members are ...

The Cherokee Indians referred to the mountain as Kuwahi for hundreds of years, long before it was dubbed Clingmans Dome in 1859.