The Tionesta Scenic and Research Natural Area in the Allegheny National Forest in northwestern Pennsylvania is the latest old-growth ... Mountains in Upstate New York and the Great Smoky Mountains ...

Pisgah and the Great Smoky Mountains, which straddle North Carolina ... terrain of the 2,000-foot-deep canyon has protected old-growth forests from logging. It's a short, 1-mile hike up Hawksbill ...

America’s most visited national park, Great Smoky Mountains ... got views, got old growth forest … If you do one trail, do that trail.” Free recommends at least two days in the park ...

Novelist Richard Powers lives in a house perched on a hillside, just on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains National ... brought him to the old growth forests of Tennessee.

The Smoky Mountains of North Carolina and Tennessee ... They also continued to cut down the old-growth forests, hoping to extract everything they could before the land was closed to them.

Photograph by Shell Royster I tackle backcountry roads, driving through deep forest towards ... seamlessly between the old ways and the new. Guide Dave Harlow of Smoky Mountains Guides on the ...

The park averages more than 80 inches of rain each year, feeding over 2,100 miles of mountain streams, waterfalls and rivers. Besides enhancing recreational opportunities, this dense annual rainfall ...

Discover Swallow Falls State Park in Maryland—home to stunning waterfalls, old-growth forests, and peaceful trails without the national park crowds.