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With 816 square miles spanning across North Carolina and Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the USA with 10.7 million people visiting in 2015.
NORTH CAROLINA, USA — The National Park Service will reopen some roads, trails and facilities inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after Hurricane Helene passed through. They're all in ...
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park (Smokies) is probably on top of anyone’s list whenever they’re thinking about a nature trip, going on a hike, or climbing the mountains. Well ...
Subscribe today. I’ve spent the last two decades exploring Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and have become utterly fascinated by its duality. On the one hand, GSMNP is the epitome of a ...
Last summer at a family gathering in South Carolina, Ann Houghton, at 73, jumped off docks to swim in the lake with her seven great-nieces and nephews, explored barefoot in the woods and got stuck ...
A missing 73-year-old hiker from North Carolina was found dead in Great Smoky Mountains National Park over the weekend, park officials said. Ann Houghton was found on Sunday about a quarter mile ...
GATLINBURG, T.N. (FOX Carolina) - The National Park Service (NPS) announced that Laurel Falls Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will close in 2025 for rehabilitation. NPS said the trail ...
Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — The historic Noah "Bud" Ogle Cabin has been preserved. Last year, a storm tore off the cabin's porch. Friends of the Smokies funded the restoration ...
For the full list, visitors should check the park map. Newfound ... assess conditions and address damage following the impacts from Hurricane Helene in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The National Park Service said in a social media post it is currently assessing the state of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after it was damaged by Hurricane Helene. The park's worst ...
CHEROKEE - Despite the destruction wrought by Tropical Storm Helene in parts of Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is open with limited closures.