The City of Sevierville Department of Parks and Recreation is now accepting registration for the Spring Adult Softball season. Leagues are available for men’s ($250.00/team) and co-ed ($150.00/team) divisions. Games will be played at Sevierville City Park on Tuesday and Thursday evenings beginning April 14, 2015. Registration materials are available at the Sevierville Community Center front desk or on the ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park fire management officials are planning a 550-acre prescribed burn in the Wash Ridge unit adjacent to Cataloochee Valley in North Carolina. Weather permitting, burn operations could begin as early as Wednesday, March 18th, and may continue intermittently through mid-April. The burn is part of the larger multi-year prescribed fire project where fire managers have been ...

People across East Tennessee will come together with Louise Mandrell to honor Pigeon Forge City Manager Earlene Teaster for her leadership and community spirit when the Boy Scouts of America recognize her with the Sevier County Good Scout Award on March 24, 2015. The occasion is the Fifth Annual Sevier County Good Scout Award Dinner that benefits the Sequoyah District ...

Sevierville’s Bob Foster will become the first American to participate in the Muskathlon and run 60 kilometers – that’s 37.3 miles – in the 4th Musketeer Muskathlon supporting Compassion International– where participants run, bike or walk to help release children from poverty in the name of Jesus. Foster’s run will take place in June in Kenya, but Compassion, a Christian ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announce the spring opening schedule for park facilities for the 2015 season. Campgrounds and secondary roads will begin opening Friday, March 13. The schedule follows: Roads – Secondary Roads are scheduled to open as follows: Forge Creek Road will open on March 6; Clingmans Dome Road will open on April 1; Round Bottom/Straight Fork ...

Quilts – the kind your grandmother made with love, skill and tradition – are the focus of A Mountain Quiltfest in Pigeon Forge from March 18-21, 2015. The festival revolves around almost 80 classes led by nationally recognized instructors, a 20-category competition with more than $22,000 in prizes, a vendor mall featuring a variety of goods and highly visual displays ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting volunteers to assist park visitors by roving the Oconaluftee River Trail, Mountain Farm Museum and the fields along Newfound Gap Road around the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee, N.C. Volunteers are needed from mid-April through mid-November and typically work one four hour shift per week. Roving volunteers provide information to visitors regarding park ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is recruiting volunteers to help provide visitor information at Clingmans Dome. The information center sits at 6,300 feet in elevation providing a unique opportunity for park volunteers to assist in educating visitors about high-elevation spruce-fir forests, while also providing recreational, trip planning, and directional information. The information center, constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps, originally ...

“Where should we go?” is an annual family vacation question across America. It also is the title of a TV commercial promoting the Great Smoky Mountains destination of Pigeon Forge, Tenn., that just won an Emmy Award. Pigeon Forge and its agency, BOHAN Advertising in Nashville, received the Emmy Award at the annual celebration of the Nashville/Midsouth Chapter of the ...

Governor Bill Haslam has designated March 2015 as Keep Tennessee Beautiful (KTnB) Month. In recognition of this honor, as well as the 2015 Great American Cleanup, KTnB along with the Pigeon Forge Hospitality Association and Keep Sevier Beautiful will host the Keep Tennessee Beautiful Month/Paint the State Green Kick-off Event on Thursday. Several representatives from the state are speaking at ...