The mountains are sometimes called the “Smokies” and are best known as the home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Best Towns near Great Smoky Mountains National Park While the Great Smoky Mountains National Park should be on any family’s itinerary when visiting near the North Carolina-Tennessee border ...

A half-century later, a Tennessee man still honors the heroic rangers who rescued him from a life-or-death situation in the ...

The major road through Great Smoky Mountains ... to park officials. Lakeview Drive reopened the afternoon of Dec. 4, the National Park Service announced. And Little River Road/Fighting Creek Gap Road ...

A half-century later, a Tennessee man still honors the ... A four-day, 34-mile hike on the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park turned into a perilous ordeal for the then ...

One of the great things about the Smoky Mountains is that just about any drive you take can be a scenic drive. For instance, ...

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 ...

especially in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park where two bears per square mile roam the United States’ most visited park. With an estimated 1,900 black bears in eastern Tennessee ...

National Park Service photo The most popular trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is ... which straddles the North Carolina-Tennessee state line. Tourists need only drive 6.7 miles ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced around 2:30 p.m. Dec. 5. The road had previously been closed due to a nearby wildfires. East Tennessee will experience wind chills that will ...