During the ban, the only burning and cooking allowed is with cookstoves with gas containers and gas grills with on/off ...

A parkwide fire ban has been issued for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park due to dry conditions and low relative ...

On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders ...

Some of the items in stores at visitor centers have an extra connection to the park: they're the work of current or retired rangers and volunteers.

The Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival and Games will soon be on its way to take people back to their Scottish roots, kicking ...

Southern Appalachian Highlands Conservancy photo Great Smoky Mountains National Park covers 522,427 acres evenly split between Tennessee and North Carolina, the National Park Service says.

Spring in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park offers a rare and welcoming combination of fewer people, cheaper lodging ...

a Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesperson announced Thursday. The immediate ban applies to all campfires and charcoal use on both the Tennessee and North Carolina sides of the park.

The National Park Service issued an advisory against bringing confetti into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in a social media post showing a park ranger picking up the tiny, colorful ...

A century ago, the great-grandparents of Tennessee ... national park would bring tourists and a new economy to the region. And it did. Even when the Great Depression hit, the Great Smoky Mountains ...

National Park Service preps for more layoffs as people plan visits to parks The Great Smoky Mountains that crest the border between Tennessee and North Carolina already have lost a dozen national ...

Meldrum, who retired from the National Park Service in 2016 ... works part-time as a tour guide at the Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center in Townsend, and he uses his earnings to buy materials ...