America’s most visited national park, Great Smoky Mountains, saw more visitors last year than the next two parks combined, the Grand Canyon and Zion. Part of the reason is the location.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WVLT) - Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash is stepping down after almost a decade heading up the country’s most-visited national park. The news ...

If you're hiking in the Smokies this season, keep an eye (and an ear) out for snakes, particularly these venomous ones.

It might take a little more huffing and puffing to reach than your average mountain stay—it’s accessible only the old-fashioned way, on your own two feet—but it’s worth every step ... founding of ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the country's most popular national park sites. It offers postcard-perfect views and plentiful wildlife. World-renowned for its biodiversity, the beauty ...

The four-state mountain region that includes Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to an estimated 14,500 black ... and people ask agencies like TWRA to take what they see as the most logical ...

The scenic, roughly 30-mile-long Newfound Gap Road (U.S. Route 441) runs through the center of the park from the Sugarlands Visitor Center near Gatlinburg, Tennessee, over the mountains and into ...

The Smoky Mountains ... as the Great Smokies. Boosters published a promotional booklet with photographs by George Masa and text by Horace Kephart. In 1926, with the support of National Park ...

The most diverse collection of wildflowers at any national park is now in bloom in the Great Smoky Mountains. Jacqui Sieber with WUOT in Knoxville, Tennessee, stopped to smell those flowers.

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to 23 species of snakes ... Mayo Clinic recommends taking the following steps to stay as safe as possible. Move far away from the snake.