Laurel Falls Trail is a popular destination at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Seeing over 300,000 hikers annually, it’s one of the park’s most iconic trails. While Gatlinburg was largely ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — With spring right around the corner, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is gearing up for the next round of hikers. So which hikes are perfect as the weather ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Spring is here in East Tennessee and spring means wildflowers. There are over 1,500 kinds of flowering plants in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Blooming flowers can be ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park said Greenbrier Road, Porters Creek Trail, Brushy Mountain Trail and campsites 31, 32 and 33 are now open to public use after flood damage in July 2022. Old ...

Over six months after Hurricane Helene caused "substantial damage" in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, one of the park’s hardest-hit areas is reopening. Trails and some roads in Cataloochee Valley ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, one of America’s most visited national parks, is set to temporarily close one of its most beloved trails. The Laurel Falls Trail is famous for its stunning 80-foot ...

Laurel Falls Trail attracts as many as 375,000 hikers annually, so many that the trail is crumbling under foot as endless lines of hikers shuffle toward an 80-foot waterfall at the 1.3-mile mark.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is doing repair work and will have weekday closures starting April 15 on a popular 4-mile trail, which is the only way to access the tallest waterfall in the ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — If you love the trails of the Smokies and can handle tools such as shovels, picks and saws, you may be an ideal candidate for a job with the National Park Service. An ...

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