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 ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited National Park in the U.S. With halves in North Carolina and Tennessee, it features over 520,000 acres to wander.

By contrast, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, often assumed to be the most popular, received 13.3 million visitors in the same year, placing it third overall, behind the Golden Gate ...

It pays to have a business near Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Visitors spent a staggering $2.2 billion in 2023 alone, making it the only park where the sum exceeded $2 billion.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular park in the country, welcoming over 12 million visitors each year. With hundreds of miles of hiking trails, rushing waterfalls, beautiful lakes, ...

Drivers traveling through Great Smoky Mountains National Park should prepare for lane closures and traffic delays during June. Maintenance along popular roads, including the Spur, ...

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 ...

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 ...

She’s studied insects at Great Smoky Mountains National Park for around 20 years. Starting in March, the park service uses daily minimum and maximum temperatures to calculate when peak season ...

She’s studied insects at Great Smoky Mountains National Park for around 20 years. Starting in March, the park service uses daily minimum and maximum temperatures to calculate when peak season ...

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 ...