Fall colors in the South generally start to peak around mid-October. The upper elevations in the Great Smoky Mountains, which see some of the season’s earliest changes, were predicted to have ...

The best times to visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park are the summer (June, July and August) and the fall. July is the busiest month of the summer season while October weekends draw those in ...

Long before Hurricane Helene hit the Smokies, the National Park Service already knew the visitation count for 2024 would be ...

Some of that snow was already on the ground when an arctic air brought record-setting cold to the mountains along the ...

The popular national park area will close for several days in January while crews remove hazardous trees and brush.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the country's most popular ... rare synchronous fireflies in late May/early June and spectacular foliage in autumn. Read more about Safe Passage: I-26 at ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — A 3-year-old boy was airlifted from the Great Smoky Mountains Tuesday afternoon after falling from a bridge at Abrams Falls. Dave Barak, a Public Affairs ...

Cades Cove Loop will close from the morning of Jan. 20 through noon on Jan. 24 and will reopen over the weekend, weather ...

Cades Cove will close for at least five days beginning Jan. 20, according to Great Smoky Mountains National ... vehicles and to remove trees that could fall onto the road. Extra crews are being ...

National Park Service photo If you are wondering how much snow piled up in the North Carolina mountains over the past ... night time temperatures would fall below zero in many areas, and wind ...