See which trails to try on your next visit to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and why the popular national park ranks ...

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Two experienced hikers are taking on the Tour De Smokies challenge. Their 900-mile hike begins Friday at midnight. Nancy East and Chris Ford are embarking on this journey ...

You don’t have to go far from the parking lot to start unlocking the secrets around Cosby – secrets Mike Maples has spent a lifetime discovering. Maples has been hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains ...

June is traditionally the most challenging month for managing human-bear conflicts in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. By mid-month this year, the park had already closed several campsites where ...

You can get all the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains with none of the crowds.

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — In the latest edition of WATE’s Smoky Mountain Minute, experts with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park spoke about trail-thru hikers along the Appalachian Trail.

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn — As the country continues to confront complex issues of racism and diversity, the superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains wants the national park to help with the discussion. The ...

It’s unlikely George and Charlie Barber guessed that anyone would remember their backcountry excursion 100 years later as they led a group of hikers to the summit of Mount Le Conte on a late October ...