Long before Hurricane Helene hit the Smokies, the National Park Service already knew the visitation count for 2024 would be lower than previous years.

The best times to visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park are the summer ... Most of the annual snowfall occurs from January to March. Early spring (March to May) also sees fewer crowds and ...

Cades Cove will close for at least five days beginning Jan. 20, according to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The popular Cades Cove Loop Road will close from the morning of Jan. 20 until noon ...

(WVLT) - Changes are coming to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s Cosby ... Work is expected to start Dec. 9 and go through the spring of 2025.

At the suggestion of a New York publicity firm, the group called itself the Great Smoky Mountain Conservation ... the land was closed to them. By the spring of 1927, $5 million in cash and pledges ...

The National Park Service will close one of the most popular trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park next month as part of a more than year-long improvement effort. Starting Jan. 6 ...

Newfound Gap Road has reopened but multiple other roads within the national park are still closed after last week’s snowstorm dropped up to 6 inches.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Several roads in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have been closed because of high winds, according to the GSMNP. Due to a high wind advisory, US 441/Newfound ...

The National Park Service will begin a major rehabilitation on Laurel Falls Trail, one of the most popular trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The trail will close for 18 months ...

The park encourages the public to bring historic photos of old homesites, hand drawn maps or other documents that will help the park identify these locations. Several additional volunteers who are ...

The power of the lesson came from the real-life, hands-on engagement in the forest, as students measured trees in the Look Rock area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find out how much ...

The power of the lesson came from the real-life, hands-on engagement in the forest, as students measured trees in the Look Rock area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park to find out how much carbon ...