Most people often think the beach is the best vacation spot, but lake towns offer a quieter, more practical kind of escape.

Tucked away in South Carolina’s northwestern corner sits a woodland treasure where pine-scented breezes whisper through ancient hardwoods and mountain waters reflect skies so blue they seem painted.

The journey to Oconee State Park takes travelers through the rolling foothills of South Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains, where each curve in the road reveals another postcard-worthy vista. As the ...

The Blue Ridge Parkway and Smoky Mountains National Park are among the seven deadliest national parks, according to a newly ...

Time to put your two-wheeler to good use on these scenic, fun bike paths—one in each state. Bicycling is as popular as ever, with sales of two-wheelers skyrocketing—many retailers have bikes on ...

Kpando (V/R), March 24, GNA – In a bid to offer variety of tourist experiences in the Volta Region as well as the country, the first-ever Zipline tourist attraction has been opened in Kpando in the ...

Twenty million trees will be planted and 2,500 hectares (6,178 acres) of new woodland created in the west of England as part of a "national forest" drive, the government has announced. The Western ...

A Franklin County jury has awarded $750,000 in damages to two families who were evicted from a Smith Mountain Lake campground after the owner learned one of the family members was Black. The verdict ...

(WSET) — A Franklin County landlord is paying the price after evicting two families from her lakefront rental property, after learning one of them was Black. A jury awarded those two families ...

Christof Koch was the second neuroscientist to make me stop and wonder at my own mind. He said, “The world is transcendent and beautiful, and consciousness is a fundamental aspect of the ...

MAGALIA — The few clouds in the sky couldn’t keep the sun from beaming on Paradise Lake on Tuesday, covering the water with ...

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