In addition to the I-40 closure, at least 20 North Carolina mountain roads are now listed off limits to large trucks after ...

Interstate 40 in western North Carolina, the 20 miles in both directions nearest the Tennessee border, remains closed from flooding and a rockslide.

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 ...

At Great Smoky Mountains Nation Park, which doesn't charge an entrance fee, that means visitors on June 19 will not have to buy parking passes that day, which are normally required to park for ...

June 5 wrapped up an eight-night event which drew people from all over the world to see the mating display of a special lightning bug species.

“This has been a great year,” Becky Nichols, a National Park Service entomologist, told the Times-News June 5, soon before dusk. She’s studied insects at Great Smoky Mountains National Park for around ...

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 ...

First, they were pelts, then pests. But now they are emerging as something else: climate heroes. With its chisel-like teeth, a beaver can fell a tree in a matter of hours. The animals eat the bark ...

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 ...

June 14 will mark 56 years since Dennis Martin disappeared in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The quiet boy from Knoxville was just a few days away from his 7th birthday the last time he w… ...

Mount McKinley’s West Buttress is pictured. A 41-year-old Seattle man fell to his death from the mountain, officials said. National Park Service Climbers were on an icy Alaska mountain when they ...

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