In August 1973, I backpacked the Appalachian Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with two of my buddies, Ken and Ray. The three of us, all starving college students, planned to hike the entir ...

See which roads in the country’s most-visited national park are now closed as a major snowstorm moves across East Tennessee.

Roads that had gradually begun to reopen after a major snowstorm have closed again due to icy conditions. See which roads are closed as of Feb. 6.

Cades Cove Loop Road will close twice in February - starting next week - for visitor safety while crews are working there.

Here's when Newfound Gap Road and other streets through the Smokies are closed to traffic this weekend due to snow, ice and ...

Attendance at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the country’s most-visited national park, dropped for second year in a row. But the longest federal government shutdown in history is not all to ...

Roads continue to reopen in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Jan. 28, after most roads in the park, plus the Gatlinburg Bypass, were closed after a significant winter storm followed by ...

It takes some effort to hike there, but this once abandoned tower in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is worth the ...

Major roads in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are being affected by winter weather as a major winter storm moves in, bringing snow and ice across East Tennessee. US 441/Newfound Gap Road, from ...