Discover three Kentucky mountain communities with scenic overlooks, underground mine tours, old-growth forests, and rich ...

The Nature Conservancy has been busy finding willing sellers and working to protect Central Appalachian properties.

If you had come to the amphitheater on Pine Mountain on Memorial Day weekend a year ago you would have found something missing. The green cove deep in the heart of Appalachia would be empty, missing ...

PINEVILLE, Ky. (WHAS11) -- It’s a four hour drive southeast of Louisville, and you will go from city to paradise in that short time. Pine Mountain and the wildlands corridor around it is being saved ...

HARLAN, Ky. (AP) — An environmental preservation group has purchased nearly 2,000 acres in an effort to preserve lands around Pine Mountain in far eastern Kentucky. Kentucky Natural Lands Trust aims ...

PINE MOUNTAIN, Ky. (WHAS11) – A big donation from Louisville’s Christy Brown to one of the most scenic areas of Kentucky is now growing with protected land that will be available for you to hike and ...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – A proposal in the state legislature to let all-terrain vehicles use the Pine Mountain Trail would have “catastrophic consequences” on the hiking route in southeastern Kentucky ...