From this Virginia village with peaceful trails and a picturesque vineyard to "The Hiking Capital of Western North Carolina," the Blue Ridge Mountains offer so much culture and natural beauty to ...

Last June, the people of Georgia celebrated a huge victory when Twin Pines Minerals abandoned its proposed titanium strip mine along the Okefenokee Swamp’s southeastern border and instead sold its ...

The year was 1828, two decades before the California Gold Rush. Benjamin Parks, a humble deer hunter, tripped over an awfully shiny rock and set off North Georgia’s gold rush. In the year that ...