The largest of these, the Haoe Fire, was burning 500 acres in the Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness of the Nantahala National ... with our North Carolina wildfire and smoke map.

Jessica Tezak for The New York Times The perennial champion among the nation’s busiest national parks, Great Smoky Mountains, in Tennessee and North Carolina, logged 12.2 million visits last year.

Three wildfires in Western North ... Carolina. Two of the fires, burning in McDowell and Swain counties, are at 94% and 100% containment, respectively. The third wildfire in Nantahala National ...