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Great Smoky Mountains Ready For Visitors

Visitors to the nation’s parks last year found high grass, shuttered buildings and closed campgrounds under the mandatory federal budget cuts known as the sequester.

But this spring, as Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Blue Ridge Parkway plan their openings, everything is back to normal — as normal as it was two years ago, anyway.

The National Park Service avoided an 8 percent budget cut this year and is operating on 2012 budget levels.

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