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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Need to know something about a trail in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? Ask Beth Jones of LaFayette, Georgia. The park has 850 miles of maintained trails, and she has hiked all of them three ...

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 ...

Most people who plan a trip to the Smoky Mountains end up in Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge, and for good reason – those towns ...

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 ...