Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — Are you hoping to check out Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park before the year ends? You'll have to hurry, or else you will have a long, ...

Later this month, the Knox County commissioners will vote on whether to join a growing list of jurisdictions in Appalachia supporting changing the name of Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the ...

View of Western North Carolina from Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Photo: Jim Renfro, NPS) Perhaps more than any other national park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...

The mountain is the highest point in the national park and the highest point in Tennessee. It’s noted by the paved spiral observation tower that straddles the state line. Thousands of years before the ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The name change proposal for Clingmans Dome to become Kuwohi, the Cherokee word for “mulberry place,” on a federal level is slated to be reviewed by the U.S. Board on ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials said Wednesday that visitors should be aware of some upcoming closures at Clingmans Dome next month. The road leading to the ...

Long before the misty peaks along the Tennessee-North Carolina border were called the Great Smoky Mountains, the tallest of them was known not as Clingmans Dome but as Kuwohi. In Cherokee, it means ...

The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Tribal Council passed a resolution Thursday in support of changing the name of the highest peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Clingmans Dome. Long before ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — The Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced this week that the last day to drive to Clingmans Dome, also known as Kuwohi, is Thursday, Nov. 30. The park said on ...