An outdoor sculpture showcase now up in the N.C. Arboretum’s gardens will showcase the work of 17 local and national artists through Sept. 26.
Fly fishing expeditions with Haywood County Recreation and Parks offer a three-hour journey through one of Haywood County’s finest trout streams.
A pair of temporary road closures is now in effect in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
A 91-acre area known as the Roan Mountain Gateway is now in U.S. Forest Service ownership after the Southern Appalachians Highlands Conservancy recently transferred it to public ownership.
Earl B. Hunter Jr. describes his younger self as a “Good Times kid,” growing up on free lunch and government assistance in Columbia, South Carolina. He wasn’t great at school — he didn’t even learn to read fluently until he was a teenager — but he had a quality about him. And he had a mentor.
Register for the Fun 4 Kids Day Camp offered by Jackson County Parks and Recreation beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 17.
National Park Week is April 17 through April 25, and parks across the country will celebrate with a series of theme days kicking off with a free admission day on Saturday, April 17.
Local wildflower expert Donna Machen will lead a pair of hikes in the Big Creek Watershed of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tuesday, April 13, and Saturday, April 17.
A trial reservation system for group access to the Whiteoak Sink area in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will go into effect for the 2021 wildflower season, April 12-30.
Spring is springing, and farmers markets are waking up around the region. Find one near you.
Back Then with George Ellison
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Snakes, really, are beautiful creatures
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Snakes are among the world’s most beautiful, fascinating, and ominous creatures. We are at once attracted to and repelled by them.
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- Outdoors roundup
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