It’s a hike and activity that they had been doing for years and had grown to enjoy, but that’s now changed. While hiking on ...

Join me as I share the national pabest Smoky Mountain vacation ideas for every traveler based on my experience exploring the ...

On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders ...

April travel in the US promises milder temperatures, blooming landscapes, and seasonal events for the states. This is Spring ...

Cades Cove is one of the most visited destinations within the park because of its pastoral views, historic settler structures and many hiking trails. Traffic on its 11-mile, one-way loop road can ...

you can hike to waterfalls like Mouse Creek Falls or Mingo Falls, fish for brook trout, or bike the 11-mile Cades Cove Loop Road, which is closed to cars on Wednesdays from May through September.

Besides the first one near headquarters, sites include Mount Le Conte (established in 1987), Newfound Gap (1991), and Cades Cove (1999). A COOP site in North ... “Our Mount Le Conte site can only be ...

Visitors to the Smokies in spring get to skip the crowds of summer while enjoying abundant wildflowers and cheaper prices.

If you haven't been on this hike, then it is one of the best ones in the park. Since we planned to spend a couple of days in the park, we broke up the rest of our trip with visits to Cades Cove, ...

The Cades Cove Loop is our favorite thing to do in the Great Smoky Mountains ... cascading double waterfall on the edge of the Cherokee Indian Reservation. You won’t have to hike too far to see it.