There is a special place nestled within the edge of the Smokey Mountains where nature puts on its own kind of Fourth of July fireworks show, only this jaw-dropping spectacle happens every year in the first week of June, … Continue reading
The wildfires currently raging across the southern Appalachia have much of the public unnerved and worried for our forests and national parks. I am certainly one of those people as the facts are quite disheartening. This crisis is extremely difficult … Continue reading
The Blue Ridge Mountains are home to some of the richest temperate deciduous forests in the world. We credit this honor in large part to the last Ice Age. During the last Ice Age, thousands and thousands of … Continue reading
Five years ago, Big Ivy wrapped its beautiful tendrils around my heart. I fell in love with this hike quite easily and I know you would too. It is rife with trailheads, waterfalls and a remote kind of beauty that … Continue reading
