But Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a “hot spot” from word of mouth and because it’s protected from development, light pollution and pesticides. The rich, moist forest floor of Great Smoky is ...

Synchronous fireflies aren’t a rare or threatened species, Nichols said, and their range extends up the Allegheny Mountains and down into Georgia. But Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a ...

Synchronous fireflies aren’t a rare or threatened species, Nichols said, and their range extends up the Allegheny Mountains and down into Georgia. But Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a ...

Synchronous fireflies aren’t a rare or threatened species, Nichols said, and their range extends up the Allegheny Mountains and down into Georgia. But Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a ...

Synchronous fireflies aren’t a rare or threatened species, Nichols said, and their range extends up the Allegheny Mountains and down into Georgia. But Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a ...

And Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to one of those unique and rare synchronous species. Every summer, Photinus carolinus gather in the Elkmont area for a couple of weeks and put on a ...

Each year in late spring, the forest fills with fireflies that flash in unison at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The synchronous show draws so many spectators to eastern Tennessee that the ...

Nestled in the mountains of East Tennessee, Gatlinburg is sandwiched between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the nation's most frequented national park, and Pigeon Forge, the home of ...

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