UPDATE: Rangers and the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s Knoxville Strike Team carried the hiker with a broken leg down from Mount LeConte on May 9, a Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesperson ...

With 816 square miles spanning across North Carolina and Tennessee, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the USA with 10.7 million people visiting in 2015.

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

After a delayed start, vehicle-free days at Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will return this summer. The Smokies will offer the first Cades Cove vehicle-free day of the year in ...

It’s wildflower season in the Great Smoky Mountains, and beneath the long morning shadows at Chestnut Tops Trail near Townsend, Tennessee, Tom Harrington is in his element. We’ve barely ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — The portion of the Foothills Parkway that runs through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park reopened on Sunday with no damage found. This section had temporarily ...

There are plenty of glamping sites around Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for travelers or locals looking to connect with nature, but some stand out above the ...

A stay at LeConte Lodge is well worth the trek. It was seven o’clock on a cool summer evening in East Tennessee as my mom and ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — A woman has been rescued after breaking their leg while hiking near the Alum Cave trailhead in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Around 8:15 a.m. Friday ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Crews worked on bringing an injured hiker out from the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Friday afternoon, after the hiker had to spend a night at LeConte Lodge due to ...

Dolly Parton first shared her desire to build a theme park near the Great Smoky Mountains in a 1982 interview. Dollywood opened May 3, 1986. On May 2, 2025, Parton and other partners in the ...