It seems the western North Carolina amusement park, Ghost Town in the Sky will no longer be a ‘ghost town’ as owners promise new attractions in the coming months. “The museum, the walking trails, all the shops on the mountain,” Alaska Presley explained some of the features of the park — located 4,400 feet above
Officials with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have closed a couple of trails after two women reported an encounter with a bear. The park has closed Twin Creeks Trail, the Noah Bud Ogle Cabin and the Noah Bud Ogle Nature Trail until further notice, according to a news release from the park. According to
With the death of Lee Roberson Jr., Blount County has lost an acclaimed artist and a powerful advocate for Cades Cove. Roberson, 79, of Townsend, died at about 5:30 p.m. Tuesday at the family home. No cause of death was announced. Funeral arrangements are incomplete and will be announced by Smith Funeral and Cremation Service.
Snake are out in Great Smoky Mountains National Park and rangers say there are a few things you should know before your next hike or camping trip. Bill and Erika Gerth said they saw several snakes during several days of hiking in the national park. >> Read Complete Article
Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers overnight camping opportunities galore. “There are a lot of good choices,” Park spokeswoman Caitlin Worth said. “I feel one of my favorites is doable as a one-night trip, but a lot of people do it as two nights — the loop out of Big Creek going up Baxter Creek
The man arrested earlier this year for a 2012 stabbing and sexual assault in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park entered a guilty plea Monday afternoon.
Executive Director Terry Maddox with Great Smoky Mountains Association announced this past week that an anonymous donor has named the non-profit organization as the recipient of one of the largest cash donations given in support of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. “I have unprecedented news to share with you,” Maddox wrote in an email to
In 1992, Lynn Faust read an article in Science News written by mathematician Steven Strogatz. The Article explained the subject of synchronized flashing of fireflies known to exist in Southeast Asia. Lynn was somewhat disappointed that the fireflies at Elkmont near her summer cabin had not been mentioned, so she wrote a letter to Strogatz.
Visitors to the nation’s parks last year found high grass, shuttered buildings and closed campgrounds under the mandatory federal budget cuts known as the sequester. But this spring, as Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway plan their openings, everything is back to normal — as normal as it was two years ago,
A beetle the size of a single grain of rice is the latest best hope for hemlocks in the Southeast that have been felled by the millions by an invasive bug. The beetle eats only one thing: the hemlock woolly adelgid (uh-DEL-jid), and it does so voraciously. Researchers are hopeful this new beetle will be
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