Great Smoky Mountains National Park is completely closed Jan. 15 due to current hazardous weather conditions, according to a news release from the National Park Service. Most park roads are closed ...

Despite the federal government shutdown that went into effect on Oct. 1, Western North Carolina's national park properties will remain mostly open - but a few things will look different. The Blue ...

And still, Leen keeps searching, following the advice of famous Smoky Mountain writer Horace Kephart—himself a seeker—who, ...

For any updates about the latest road closure information, you can go to the national park’s official website.

On average, the highest elevations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park get over 100 inches of snow a year. Temperatures 20 degrees below zero are possible. Roads and areas of the popular park often ...

People enjoy hiking for a variety of reasons, but the Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers an odd but intriguing one.

Unlike a lot of what’s happened during the shutdown, there is some precedent for how reimbursement could work.

Four new millipede species have been discovered in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, highlighting ongoing biodiversity ...

Seasonal hiring is underway at the Smokies, but funding uncertainty could affect staffing and visitor experience at national ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...