Latest news stories from around the Great Smoky Mountains.
Logging long stretches in the backcountry of the Cataloochee Valley area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Western Carolina University biology graduate student Elizabeth Hillard is performing research that will help park personnel manage resources in regard to the park’s growing population of elk. >> Read Complete Article
Gatlinburg Gateway Triathlon. The event, which takes place at 8:15 a.m. on April 13th at the Gatlinburg Community Center, is the fifth annual event of its kind. >> Read Complete Article
As a result of last week’s torrential rainfall accumulations, a portion of road on the Great Smoky Mountains Parkway connecting Cherokee and Tennessee, was swept away in a landslide. >> Read Complete Article
The seventh annual Winter Heritage Festival in Townsend, TN, is set for Friday and Saturday, Feb. 1-2 with a kickoff reception at the Townsend Artisan Gallery (7843 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway) Thursday, Jan. 31 from 5-7 p.m. >> Read Complete Article
When February 13 rolls around the National Park Service will begin charging a backcountry camping fee for all those wishing to camp overnight in the Great Smoky Mountains backcountry. The fee will be $4 per person per night in order to use the park’s backcountry campsites and shelters. The money collected from the fees will
Highway officials hope to have a time and cost estimate within the next week for the work that is needed to repair the section of U.S. 441 that was destroyed in a landslide last week. The Park service chief of facility management, Charles Sellars declared. “It is a significant slide. It’s going to take us
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park is the home to the biggest concentration of Black Bears in the US. Pollution from visitors and their vehicles are threatening the bears and other native wildlife. >> Read Complete Article
With snow on the ground, cold temperatures at night and sunny days ahead, many people are taking to the slopes to enjoy some winter sports. >> Read Complete Article
The body of a hiker found deceased by Great Smoky M0untain National Park Rangers has been identified as Richard Lemarr, age 50 from Knoxville. Lemarr’s body was found Wednesday afternoon, January 16 at the Tricorner Knob Shelter along the Appalachian Trail and. Lemarr had left Newfound Gap Saturday morning with the intention of hiking 30
Great Smoky Mountains officials are reporting that a huge landslide near mile marker 22 has taken a large chunk out of Newfound Gap Rd. (US 441). The slide occurred Thursday morning around 9:40 a.m. and left a gap in the road roughly the size of a football field. No one was reported injured. Officials expect
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