Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Photo: Getty) With so many options on the table and 848 miles of trails, it can be hard to decide exactly where to spend your time in the park.

Even with some trails closed because of damage from Helene, there are still many wonderful things to see in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Anecdotal evidence from the 2010s suggested that activities such as trampling, rock stacking and damming - all associated with tubing, a popular activity on Deep Creek - might be resulting in ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. — The Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival and Games will soon be back to take people back to their Scottish roots, kicking off on May 17.

Deep Creek will open as planned on April 18. It should be noted Balsam Mountain, Big Creek and Cataloochee have been closed since September due to damage from Hurricane Helene.

However, despite North Carolina’s mountain towns being magical vacation spots, not all get the same attention as Asheville, ...

Holly Kays is the lead writer for the 29,000-member Smokies Life, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting the scientific, historical, and interpretive activities of Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...