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A 77-foot waterfall in the Oklahoma Ozarks, filming location for Where the Red Fern Grows, with lamp posts from the 1920s still lining the trail.

Hot Springs National Park in Arkansas is unlike any other national park — it sits inside a small city, and the park's thermal springs have drawn everyone…

Missouri's widest continuously running waterfall outside Joplin — 163 feet across solid chert, a local favorite for fishing and swimming for generations.

Triple Falls in DuPont State Forest — three tiers of Little River waterfalls, a Hunger Games filming location, and some of the best hiking in western North…

The highest waterfall east of the Rockies at up to 411 feet, plunging through Nantahala National Forest on the NC-SC border.

A 14-foot waterfall in DuPont State Forest with one of the best swimming holes in western North Carolina — short hike, big payoff.

A 60-foot roadside waterfall in Pisgah National Forest near Brevard, NC — most accessible and most beautiful, no hike required.

The Blue Ridge Parkway runs 469 miles through the Appalachians from Virginia to North Carolina, with no stoplights, no trucks, and an overlook every 1.7…

A short Ozark hike through a rocky gorge with hand-cut stone steps, small waterfalls, and the alleged hideout of the Jesse James gang after the Gads Hill…