Located along the Trillium Gap Trail – off the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail – Grotto Falls is a nearly 3-mile-long, round-trip hike that runs behind a 25-foot waterfall. Summer hikers love ...

Visitors looking for a challenging hike filled with sweeping mountain vistas and unique geological landmarks should consider the Alum Cave Trail to Mount LeConte. This popular 11-mile out and back ...

AT maintainers celebrated by reblazing all 72 miles of the trail’s Great Smoky Mountains section with a fresh round of iconic ...

The National Park Service has a list of the 25 “cold cases” on its website, and only four are missing persons cases from the Great Smoky Mountains ... reading a map than trails, and in those ...

Examples of trails ... map. Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) is open 24 hours a day. Commercial vehicles are prohibited in the park.All park visitor centers and most facilities in the Smoky Mountains ...

Kuwohi, formerly known as Clingmans Dome, is the highest peak within the tribe’s ancestral homeland and offers a sweeping view of treetops throughout the Great Smoky Mountains. It’s “the ...

Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, a one-way scenic loop that provides access to popular areas in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is scheduled to close the night of Oct. 21 for maintenance.

Several sites, campgrounds, trails and roads within Great Smoky Mountains National Park, particularly on the North Carolina side of the park, are still closed for Helene recovery efforts. Major ...

Right now is prime leaf-peeping season in the Smokies. Take a look at our photos of the colorful trees in the national park.

The southernmost section of the Blue Ridge Parkway, near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, is open again to visitors.