HARTFORD, Tenn. (AP) — Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains.

People carried red-tinted flashlights and sat in folding chairs along the paths of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. They had come from all over the world to watch the wild show and whisper ...

Only 120 cars are allowed in for each of eight nights every year during peak season, Katie Liming, Chief of Staff at Great Smoky Mountains National Park told the Times-News. “We can predict when ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dolly Parton isn’t a city founder of Pigeon Forge, Tenn. — that honor belongs to Euro-American settlers in the 1780s — but the superstar’s influence is so profound in this country-fried ...

Sojourn Lodging, a new boutique tiny house hotel concept in the Smoky Mountains, is officially open and now welcoming guests. Located just outside Pigeon Forge and near the Wears Valley entrance ...

Ways to view the synchronous fireflies without a lottery pass Over 20,000 people enter the lottery each year, and only 960 vehicle passes – 120 per night – were distributed this year. Elkmont ...

Numbers from the National Park Service show Great Smoky Mountains had 12.2 million visitors in 2024, the most of any park in the system. That’s up from a little more than 9 million visitors a ...

While hiking deep in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, explorers stumbled upon bizarre, ancient-looking rock formations—with no clear origin or explanation. Were they built by early ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) had more than 12 million visitors in 2024, or about 34,000 guests every day. That makes the 522,427-acre swath of mountains, streams, and historic ...

This abandoned community was once for the wealthy and nestled in the mountains along a beautiful creek. The graveyard tells of the tragedy that struck this once amazing resort!