The Chimney Tops Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is open and one of the most popular hikes in the park. However, like Gatlinburg and the Smoky Mountains, it is also forever changed by ...

When the Chimney Tops 2 fire tore through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in November 2016, it forced a 10-month closure of one of the park's most popular hiking trails. The fire was ...

For more than 10 months, bright orange barriers have blocked the trail head to one of the most popular hikes inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Chimney Tops is typically one of the most ...

Friends of the Smokies has an especially vested interest in the well-being of the Chimney Tops Trail, and the prognosis for the trail is not good. Chimney Tops in the Great Smoky Mountains ...

But his favorite eavesdrop was recently hearing a father point out to his son the solid, sturdy workmanship of the Chimney Tops Trail, which lies just over the North Carolina border on the ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) – A portion of the Chimney Tops Trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is reopening this week for the first time since last year’s devastating wildfires.

The Friends of the Smokies will host the November Classic Hike of the Smokies on the newly reconstructed Chimney Tops Trail Nov. 10, but you have to sign up by Nov. 5. The hike will include vistas ...

Four trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park remain closed six months after the Nov. 28 fire. The list includes Chimney Tops Trail, one of the most beloved trails in the Smokies that is ...

Rangers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have a new warning for hikers on the Chimney Tops trail who may be ignoring posted signs about the dangers along the trail that burned in the ...

The crew was 1½ miles up the Chimney Tops Trail, one of the rockiest, steepest, and most popular hiking trails in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Three years go, with funding from Trails ...