Botanists and ecologists have noticed changes in the northern Appalachian Mountains. More trees and small shrubs are growing ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. New England's White Mountains are a subrange of the northern Appalachian Mountains. - Andrew ...

The 70-acres ascend Fork Mountain in Mitchell County.

If you visit Mount Jacques-Cartier in Québec’s Gaspésie National Park, you can expect to climb through a forest of spruce and fir trees along a trail lined with bunchberry flowers. As you approach the ...

Beneath the hiking trails and autumn ridgelines of the Appalachian Mountains, something of enormous industrial consequence may have been sitting quietly underfoot for more than 300 million years. A ...

"AMC's High Mountain Huts offer a kind of joy you can't find anywhere else," said Nicole Zussman, President and CEO of the Appalachian Mountain Club. "Picture yourself hiking through awe-inspiring ...

The hills around us shimmer in the late-afternoon sun and the meadow grasses bristle in the breeze as the notes to "Jubilee", a classic Kentucky tune, float from the log-cabin porch on which we sit.

Geologists have developed a new theory to explain how and when the Appalachian Mountain range was created. Their research redraws the map of the planet from 420 million years ago. The scientists ...

Generations ago, deep in the southern Appalachian Mountains, parent and child sat knee to knee, passing down stories of love and loss, murder and violence, heartbreak and betrayal, community and ...

A 1700s log cabin deep in the Appalachian Mountains that was once lived in by a Revolutionary War solider #appalachia ...