For any updates about the latest road closure information, you can go to the national park’s official website.

Despite the federal government shutdown that went into effect on Oct. 1, Western North Carolina's national park properties will remain mostly open - but a few things will look different. The Blue ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is completely closed Jan. 15 due to current hazardous weather conditions, according to a news release from the National Park Service. Most park roads are closed ...

CHEROKEE - Despite the destruction wrought by Tropical Storm Helene in parts of Western North Carolina and eastern Tennessee, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is open with limited closures. The ...

Unlike a lot of what’s happened during the shutdown, there is some precedent for how reimbursement could work.

Seasonal hiring is underway at the Smokies, but funding uncertainty could affect staffing and visitor experience at national ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is by far the most visited national park in the country. It's not even close. The Smokies welcomed 13.3 million visitors in 2023, its second-highest year on record.

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 ...

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