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Road Project to Start in Smokies

Work will begin Jan. 5 on a road stabilization project to repair a slide area along Newfound Gap Road. The area is on the North Carolina side of the park, about 1 mile south of Newfound Gap parking area, just south of the Deep Creek Trailhead. The work will continue into May. >> Read Complete

  • December 30, 2013
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Newfound Gap Road Re-Opens to Traffic

Newfound Gap Road (Hwy 441) has been re-opened to traffic. At 10:00 am on April 15 Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials opened the heavily traveled road that connects Cherokee, NC and Gatlinburg, TN. The road had been closed ever since the massive landslide on January 16 that destroyed roughly 200 feet of the road.

  • April 17, 2013
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