The Laurel Falls trail will close in January for 18 months. The National Park Service will close one of the most popular trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park next month as part of a more ...

The Ramsey Cascades Trail is now fully reopened following a three-year-long restoration. Marje/Getty Images The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Deep Creek entrance sign It just got easier to ...

The Park Service will announce a timeline for implementing a timed-entry parking reservation system. More than 375,000 visitors hiked Laurel Falls Trail in 2020, according to Great Smoky Mountains ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park actually ranked No. 1 in the number of trails: 348, far outdistancing runner-up Yosemite's 278 trails.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most-visited national park in the country for a reason. Many reasons, in fact: the natural beauty of its trails and waterfalls, the salamanders and the ...

Abrams Falls Trail will close for three days for trail maintenance. But there are other hikes to waterfalls in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Tucked away in the Tennessee section of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the valley of Cades Cove spans 4,000 acres across rolling hills and oak-pine forests. Each spring, those fields become ...

Some people hear that Great Smoky Mountains is America’s most-visited national park and think it’s a reason to stay away. The opposite is true. There’s a reason it’s so popular: This ...

Birds, bees, bears, dragonflies, salamanders, hemlocks, fungi: scientific research in Great Smoky Mountains National Park addresses a wide swath of subjects. From Tennessee, North Carolina, South ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are reminding visitors not to climb rocks near waterfalls after two hikers fell and were seriously injured on Wednesday.

Some of the facilities and Visitor Centers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are slated to reopen Saturday, although many major roads throughout the park remain closed.

In total, the park features more than 500,000 acres, 10 developed campgrounds, and more than 100 backcountry campsites. Marje/Getty Images The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Deep Creek ...