“Laurel Falls Trail is a beloved feature of Great Smoky Mountains National Park,” acting park Superintendent ... hike through a mixed hardwood forest. The popular trail leads to an impressive ...

The Clingmans Dome trail takes you to the highest point in Tennessee, providing sweeping views of the Great Smoky Mountains ...

Lynn Faust pointed to a spot in the forest bordering a quiet section of the Little River Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Peering into the woods, I watched as a quick set of flashes ...

Destination: the Great Smoky Mountains! We stayed in a beautiful cabin near the national park entrance ... and North Carolina. The park has over 800 miles of hiking trails. I got to hike three ...

Kephart and a few like-minded people proposed that the Smoky Mountains be made into a national park to protect the 100,000 acres of virgin forest that ... called itself the Great Smoky Mountain ...

On average, the highest elevations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park get over 100 ... Hikers are usually on the park’s trails on any given day, regardless of weather conditions.

Scenic, roughly 30-mile-long Newfound Gap – U.S. Route 441 – runs through the center of the park from the Sugarlands Visitor Center near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, over the mountains and into ...

Newfound Gap Road has reopened but multiple other roads within the national park are still closed after last week’s snowstorm ...

During peak season, the popular national park has 10 to 12 "Volunteers in Park" on its roster for every one National Park ...

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