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Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers remind visitors that graffiti not only detracts from the natural beauty of the park, but can also permanently damage irreplaceable resources. Park resources including one of the best collections of log buildings in the eastern United States, backcountry hiking shelters, live trees, stone walls, bridges, and tunnels have all
Love the Smokies? Of course you do, along with 10 million other people who visit the most popular national park in the country each year. A park, one must remember, that does not charge an entrance fee, like so many of the parks out West. Want to help the Smokies? Here’s your chance, when the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is preparing for an influx of new Appalachian Trail hikers after the movie “A Walk in the Woods” is released Sept. 2. The comedy adventure starring Robert Redford and Nick Nolte as old friends who decide to hike the 2,190-mile trail is based on the book “A Walk in the
A 23-year old hiker is in stable condition after injuring himself while hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park Friday afternoon. Rangers responded to a call reporting that a man was suffering from a possible broken ankle on the Miry Ridge Trail near the Appalachian Trail. A Tennessee Highway Patrol helicopter was dispatched to
Two new children’s books on the Great Smoky Mountains National Park take a child’s-eye view of the beloved park’s history. One story is told through the view of a homing pigeon, while one takes a brother and sister on a time travel. The two authors each will present their books in Asheville this week.
It might not be uncommon to see bears in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, but some say those sightings are happening more often. Several viewers have sent Report It pictures to WATE 6 On Your Side from bear sightings in more populated areas. >> Read Complete Article
A 7-year-old Kentucky girl visiting the Great Smoky Mountains National Park suffered injuries after falling 30 feet from the top of Cataract Falls, according to a National Park Service spokesman. The girl, whose name was unavailable, climbed to the top of the falls, not far from park headquarters at the Sugarlands Visitors Center, about 11:45
The Great Smoky Mountain National Park Service said rangers and staffers from the Tremont Institute were able to save a man’s life using an automatic external defibrillator and by performing CPR. Rangers said a 64-year-old man suffered from some sort of cardiac event in the Spruce Flat Falls area Sunday afternoon. The man was revived
There’s music in these mountains — beyond the crash of waterfalls and the early morning choruses of the hundreds of bird species that dwell in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The nation’s most visited national park drew more than 10 million people last year and is best known for majestic views from some of the
In 1915, after a heated argument with his father, a 12-year-old boy ran away from his home in Blount County, determined to reach his grandparents who lived on the other side of the Smoky Mountains. Following an old wagon road that roughly traced the route of today’s U.S. Highway 441 through the park, the boy
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