Hidden within the expansive 530,000-acre Nantahala National Forest in southwest North Carolina are many spectacular waterfalls. The appropriately-named Waterfall Byway takes drivers through "the land ...

The hike into Passage Creek Falls during summer months is a nearly flat, five-mile round-trip jaunt that leads into a small canyon that's a great place to escape the heat. The chill deepens in the ...

Imagine yourself lounging by the edge of your own waterfall. Splashing water and natural rock ledges are smothered in a cascading sheet of pink clematis. Scarlet-orange fish dart here and there among ...