The National Park Service closed the Rich Mountain Road in the Cades Cove area as bears have been seen foraging for food. steverts/Getty Images Great Smoky Mountains National Park has closed a ...

A beloved National Park Service volunteer has been found dead after going missing on a hike in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Ann Houghton, 73, who volunteered for the NPS for more than ...

getty Houghton was a resident of Jackson County, N.C. She volunteered for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for over two decades and worked over 4,000 hours as NPS front-line representative.

More mountain ridges at sunrise in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina, USA. (Photo by Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images) As you view the mountains, they commonly ...

I'm lucky to call the 500,000-acre Great Smoky Mountains National Park my backyard, and they call images to mind that captures their character. There's the black bear sprawling over a low branch ...

Park rangers with Great Smoky Mountains National Park – America’s most ... Steve Heaslip/Cape Cod Times / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images Park officials also asked visitors to consider ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park The Grand Canyon in Arizona. (Getty) TripAdvisor always wants to know how you feel about where you go and what you do, and of those of you who have attended the ...

Bear 609, a black bear in Great Smoky Mountains ... National Forest from the west bound I-26 scenic overlook in Unicoi County, TN on August 04, 2016 (Photo by Bryan Steffy/Getty Images) From ...

A swarm of at least four earthquakes struck the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Getty Images/iStockphoto A swarm of at least four earthquakes ...

A 73-year-old volunteer at Great Smoky Mountains National Park was found dead over the weekend after she was reported missing while she was out on a hike in the park she dedicated decades of her ...

If you head south on the main parkway through Pigeon Forge, you'll enter Great Smoky Mountains National Park, known for its black bears, rolling mountains, abundant wildflowers, historical sites ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is also the most visited, welcoming more than 10 million travelers annually. The 522,427-acre park is shared by Tennessee and North Carolina, with the border ...