Spring visits to the Smokies will be different this year. Areas are closed and program start dates are delayed amid federal staffing and budget cuts.

Discover the best approach to planning a trip to the most visited national park in the U.S. while enjoying everything it ...

We saw Yosemite National Park and Great Smoky Mountains issue separate advisories this week. Yosemite warned park visitors of snowy conditions. Great Smoky Mountains had an advisory of its own, ...

Around 1,000 National ... over great swaths of land all over the United States, with an already small staff. Now it is more than 1,000 probationary workers less, thanks to the Trump administration ...

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 ...

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.

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

America's national park sites saw a record number of visitors last year. Great Smoky Mountains, Zion and Grand Canyon ...

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 ...

An Arizona national park had the third most visitors in 2024 of all the parks in the United States. Here's how many visited ...

The National Park ... United States, with an already small staff. Now it is more than 1,000 probationary workers less, thanks to the Trump administration cuts to the federal workforce. The Great ...

Grand Canyon National ... United States, according to recently released visitation data. Grand Canyon National Park had the third most visitors of any U.S. park in 2024, just behind Great Smoky ...