From hikes to viewpoints, these 10 beautiful places in the Great Smoky Mountains will have you reaching for your camera time ...

Large, bare trees towered over blooming shrubs and flowers ... Smoky Mountains National Park. The wildflower season is estimated to last until the first week of May. There are several trails ...

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK ... one of the park’s wildflower trails. The first two miles have great displays, especially in April. See flowers like: Not up for a long trip?

In the spring, the sight is often the backdrop for a field of colorful wildflowers; in the fall, a rich palette of changing leaves. I’m lucky to call the 500,000-acre Great Smoky Mountains ...

Here are our favorite places to frolic through fields ... the trail is also lined with mountain laurel, rhododendrons, and trilliums. Photograph by Jesse Thornton, Alamy Stock Photo Flower petals ...

National Trails Day is June 7 and volunteers are needed to help install logs on an AT trail near Icewater Spring Shelter.

National Park Service photo The most popular trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park is closing and won’t reopen until mid-2026, according to the National Park Service. Laurel Falls Trail ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Update (Sept. 8): Work on Little River Trail is going to take a little longer than expected. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park said rainstorms earlier ...

The most diverse collection of wildflowers at any national park is now in bloom in the Great Smoky Mountains. Jacqui Sieber with WUOT in Knoxville, Tennessee, stopped to smell those flowers.