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Located near the beginning of the Cades Cove Loop Road, the John Oliver Cabin was built in the early 1820’s by John and Lucretia Oliver, the first permanent white settlers of Cades Cove. A short trail leading from a parking area off the Cades Cove Loop Road will lead you back to the John Oliver
Without a doubt the most famous inhabitant of the Great Smoky Mountains is the Black Bear. It’s estimated that roughly 1,800 inhabit the park. Black bears average 200 to 400 pounds in weight and can reach six feet in length. Among the best places to see black bears in the Smoky Mountains and are in
theDailyTimes.com A Knoxville man was killed in a motor vehicle accident Tuesday morning in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Paul J. Rodgers, 47, was killed in the single-vehicle wreck on Laurel Creek Road about 5.5 miles west of the Townsend junction in Blount County. READ FULL ARTICLE
Even with a possible glitch in counting the number of visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains, there’s an overall increase in the number of people coming to the national park, officials said. Records show a 15.1 percent increase in visitors in June of this year over last June, and a 3.3 percent overall increase for
