While many national and state parks in Western North Carolina remain closed after Helene's destruction, Gorges State Park is ...

The Sikhote-Alin mountain range contains one of the richest and most unusual temperate forests of the world. In this mixed zone between taiga and subtropics, southern species such as the tiger and ...

The park hosts an annual Mountain Monarch Festival to celebrate ... Fewer than 15 years before, this sprawling Appalachian temperate rainforest near the South Carolina border — home to a third ...