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.

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 ...

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

Fires inside America’s most visited national park have been banned until further notice, a Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesperson announced Thursday.

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

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

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 ...

The National Park Service said on Thursday it had implemented a burn ban on both the Tennessee and North Carolina sides of the park.