Funding from local agencies allows restrooms, emergency services, campgrounds, Cades Cove, all visitor centers and picnic ...

While other national parks are closed as the government shutdown drags on, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is open - at ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will remain open with limited staff and basic visitor services from Nov. 3, 2025, through ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will remain open through the holidays despite the ongoing federal government shutdown, ...

Local and state government organizations in Tennessee are paying $80,000 a week to keep the park open through Jan. 4.

The deal to keep the Great Smoky Mountains National Park open has been extended into the new year as the government shutdown ...

Snaking through the Great Smoky Mountains, visitors drove to and through the 11-mile Cades Cove Scenic Loop, one of the most popular destinations in the national park, thanks to a brief reopening ...

With half of Americans living within 500 miles of the Great Smoky Mountains, these hills have long held the title of the most-visited national park in the United States. If you want to experience this ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Recent favorable weather conditions have allowed the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to plan an upcoming controlled/prescribed burn in Cades Cove. The burn operations are ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WKRN) – Cades Cove is a valley surrounded by mountains, but the area is defined by much more. “It’s a history. It’s a community. It’s a people. And it’s a story that we need to make ...