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

There’s no question why Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most-visited national park in the United States. People ...

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 ...

The Smokies are a beautiful place to explore in winter - but visitors should be prepared for snow, ice, high winds, bitter ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the country's most popular ... Seasonal offerings include colorful wildflowers in spring, rare synchronous fireflies in late May/early June and ...

Some of that snow was already on the ground when an arctic air brought record-setting cold to the mountains along the ...

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 ...

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

On average, the highest elevations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park get over 100 inches of snow a year. Temperatures 20 degrees below zero are possible. Roads and areas of the popular park ...

Millions of people enjoy Great Smoky Mountains National Park each year. Some enter the park one way and leave another, only to return later on the same day, making it somewhat difficult to determine ...