Great Smoky Mountains

Arts & Culture
Richard Powers’s Wild Voice
The novelist’s Great Smoky Mountains immersion laid the groundwork for his epic Pulitzer-winning tree novel. It also sparked a love affair between man and place that is upending Powers’s life and work

Land & Conservation
What You Need to Know about Fall Foliage This Year
The forecast for the Appalachian mountains calls for a better leaf-peeping season than in 2018

Travel
Fall Color Finder
Here’s the tool you really need before you go leaf-peeping this season

Feature
Fire on the Mountain
A night of terror in Gatlinburg, Tennessee

Travel
Bucket-List Trip: The Top of Tennessee
A secluded lodge with panoramic views of the Great Smoky Mountains

Travel
Secret Smokies: An Insider’s Guide to Quiet, Back-Road Spots
The folks at the National Park Service point us in the right direction—away from where everyone else is

Land & Conservation
Dwight McCarter: The Tracker
During his thirty years tracking lost souls through the Smokies and beyond McCarter rescued twenty-six people, many of them children. These days he’s still in the mountains, often thinking about those he found—and the few he didn’t

Land & Conservation
On The Trail With Dwight McCarter
Expert tracker Dwight McCarter takes us into the Great Smoky Mountains