Mount Mitchell State Park, about 35 miles northeast of Asheville, North Carolina, is a place of superlatives. The namesake peak is the tallest east of the Missi

More of MNN's user guides for some of the best national, state and local parks in the United States. Explore America's parks with this series.

This is part of Explore America's Parks, a series of user's guides to national, state and local park systems across the United States. We'll be adding new parks

Visible from Puget Sound to the west, Mount Rainer looms above the Cascade Range at 14,410 feet above sea level. This peak of fire and ice — an active volcano

Here are seven of our favorite waterfalls in national parks.

Shenandoah National Park may be the world’s most beautiful highway right-of-way. This park in central Virginia stretches for 105 miles along the Blue Ridge Mo

The National Park of American Samoa isn’t the sort of place you visit on your way to some other destination. You have to really want to be here. It’s a 5 ½

There is more to Nevada than desert, hot nightclubs and garish, neon temples of gambling. Great Basin National Park, about 285 miles north of the Las Vegas Stri

You won’t find a home where the buffalo roam across this section of the Great Plains, but you will find 126 campsites at Theodore Roosevelt National Park. You

Towering granite walls, picturesque valleys carved by glaciers, jaw-dropping giant trees, waterfalls. It sounds like Yosemite National Park. Kings Canyon Nation

Rustic buildings scattered across this Iowa state park make the trails all the more worth forging.

Stephen C. Foster State Park gives access to the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, likely the wildest 402,000 acres in the Southeast.

Wedged between Raleigh, Durham and Research Triangle Park is more than eight square miles of woods dotted with lakes and laced with streams and trails. William

You don’t have to travel to the Caribbean for a laid-back island experience. Burton Island State Park in Vermont provides a getaway for swimming and sunbathin

Take a walk among the redwoods in this serene park in the Santa Cruz mountains.

The 2,700 acre park covers grasslands, freshwater riparian habitat, saltwater marshes, and coastal sage scrub habitat.

With more than 131 acres, Grant Park is a giant greenspace that provides a natural foil to urban living.

The Palo Alto Baylands Preserve is a special place in the San Francisco Bay area of California.

This South Dakota park delivers a dose of rugged beauty, from the namesake rocks to a classic prairie teeming with wildlife.

You're probably not washing your hands the right way, a new study shows. And if you use hand dryers, you're spreading germs everywhere.

Fear, survival instincts and herd mentality all contribute to panic buying.

A never-before-seen coronavirus discovered in China is spreading, causing COVID-19. How worried should you be?

We're closing schools, canceling events and staying inside because of the coroanvirus so we can save lives.

Here's how to get your home and family ready for the possibility of a coronavirus outbreak.

Ask these 6 daily quarantine questions to make sure you're doing OK and taking care of yourself.

During the coronavirus pandemic, we're making phone calls again so we can hear familiar voices.

The U.S. food supply is experiencing problems, from milk to chicken to produce, but it's functioning and shoppers can get the food they need during COVID-19.

Just one exercise session increases the antioxidant that could help prevent a deadly side effect of COVID-19.

We answer all your questions about coronavirus face masks, from how to make one to who needs to wear one and what each kind of mask does.

With fewer people working and more people in need, food banks are struggling during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The unique ecosystem found in Chesapeake Bay has been under strain due to water pollution, but with partners like Siemens, the community is making strides to im

When the EPA announced a reduction in the acceptable levels of arsenic in drinking water, Siemens’ GFH® media-based system made compliance achievable.

Turning tragedy into an opportunity for growth, the Greensburg, Kansas community is rebuilding with an emphasis on sustainability.

From many miles above, the seemingly neat and orderly seaweed "fields" resemble blocks of text from books.

16-year-old entertainer says he's excited to return to his family's 88-acre farm and 'take in the open space and nature around my home.'

Whether you want them for eggs or see them as pets, chickens can be fun — if you do your homework.

We owe the spiciness of mustard, horseradish and wasabi to an 'arms race' between plants and caterpillars that dates back to the dinosaurs.

Noting that bees are 'dying at alarming rates,' federal judges have rejected the EPA's approval of sulfoxaflor.

At Italy's Ferrari Vineyards, the honeybees keep the vineyards thriving and at least one bear's belly full.

A new super slow-motion video reveals the unusual pollination strategy of Australia's blue-banded bee.

Eating bioregionally is gaining in popularity. Here's what you need to know, including how it differs from the locavore moment.

When thousands of Skittles are spilled onto a Wisconsin highway, a common practice of cattle farmers is revealed: Some farmers feed their cows candy.

Geologists studying the phenomenon say the fissure is likely a reflection of aquifer depletion.

Spiders eat several hundred million tons of insects per year, a new study finds, a global feast rivaling the yearly meat intake of humans.

Coffee-growing regions are set to lose key pollinators like bees by midcentury due to climate change.

Our love of avocados and guacamole is leaving Chilean villagers without water.

Many cultures have end-of-growing-season holidays that are similar to Thanksgiving.

Researchers have improved the process by which plants get rid of toxic compounds, and this improves their overall growth.

In some regions, as many as 80 percent of trees could be in danger from RAD or rapid apple decline.

The Anthropocene Era now has an official beginning.