After my favorite mountain towns started to get too crowded with tourists, I found a new favorite entrance to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

If you’re a traveler who lives for wide-open landscapes and timeless forest trails, you might assume that Great Smoky ...

Here's when Newfound Gap Road and other streets through the Smokies are closed to traffic this weekend due to snow, ice and damaging winds.

A $750,000 donation from the Boyd Foundation is enough for Friends of the Smokies to complete their $9 million ‘Forever Places Endowment’. 6 News learned more about what this means for the Great ...

The country’s most-visited national park had its lowest attendance since 2018. But the longest government shutdown in history ...

The Smokies didn’t get a lot of snow and ice from the recent winter storm, but some roads in the park are still closed. Here’s why.

In this video, we explore Great Smoky Mountains National Park, visiting the old farm museum and hiking to one of its highest ...

The Great Smoky Mountain National Park ranks as most popular in the U.S. in a recent poll. National Park Week runs from Saturday, April 19 through Sunday, April 27. National Park Week is no exception.

Didn’t win the firefly lottery? Don’t worry, the majestic synchronous fireflies light show isn’t limited to just the lucky few. The synchronous fireflies in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park put ...

Roads that had gradually begun to reopen after a major snowstorm have closed again due to icy conditions. See which roads are ...

The fate of democracy was fragile when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...

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