Skip the pool and head to this Tennessee swimming spot in the Great Smoky Mountains for a relaxing, crowd-free day of tubing, ...

The best way to get around Great Smoky Mountains National Park ... There are three main entrances to the park, two in Tennessee (Gatlinburg and Townsend) and one in North Carolina (Cherokee).

TOWNSEND, Tenn. – A spider known for its unique coloring and large size has been spotted twice recently in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The spider species is quite large, with adult ...

Scenic, roughly 30-mile-long Newfound Gap – U.S. Route 441 – runs through the center of the park from the Sugarlands Visitor Center near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, over the mountains and into ...

Ahead of the weekend's forecast winter weather, U.S. 441/Newfound Gap Road between Gatlinburg, Tennessee and Cherokee, North Carolina, is closed in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The road ...

The National Park Service has closed Newfound Gap Road and Foothills Parkway West in the Great Smoky Mountains due to snow.

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 ...

Air pollution can travel hundreds of miles, affecting the air quality in national parks and communities far from the original source. While Great Smoky Mountains sits between Tennessee and North ...

U.S. 441/Newfound Gap Road is open once again after a winter storm in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Drivers should ... and other cities in East Tennessee were under a winter weather ...

Kephart and a few like-minded people proposed that the Smoky Mountains be made into a national park ... the Great Depression was devastating the country, and the people of Tennessee and North ...