What can you look forward to finding in the Nice Smoky Mountains National Park? A Chinese language check capsule parachuted safely to Earth on Friday (Oct. 31, Nov. 1 local China time) after being launched on a slingshot journey around the moon eight days earlier, capping the world’s first mission to Earth’s nearest neighbor and again in practically 40 years. China grew to become the third nation to perform the feat, after the previous Soviet Union and the United States.

For families with kids of all ages, the four-mile Beaver Lake Path — as soon as an previous railroad mattress — is brimming with lush greenery, hardly ever sees snow and makes for a peaceable hike by way of the North Cascades of Washington. “It’s a simple ramble subsequent to the mighty Sauk River, which can let kids rise up close and private with nature on an easy, flat path,” …