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Great Smoky Mountains National Park invites the public to join park staff on Saturday, Sept. 24, 2016 for the 23rd annual celebration of National Public Lands Day. National Public Lands Day is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer effort to improve and enhance the public lands across America. In recognition, the park is hosting a variety of service projects across the ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park firefighters are fighting a 25-acre wildfire located along the northwest boundary of the park north of the Abrams Creek Campground area. The Happy Valley Ridge Fire was reported at approximately 6:45 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 14, 2016. Firefighters from the park and the Tennessee Division of Forestry responded to the fire, which is located inside ...

A family trip to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has resulted in tragedy after a woman died as a result of a fall from a rock wall at the Newfound Gap parking lot. According to park spokesperson Dana Soehn, Swain County 911 notified Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rangers of a medical emergency at the Newfound Gap parking lot ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host the annual Mountain Life Festival at the Mountain Farm Museum on Saturday, Sept. 17 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The festival preserves the legacy of Appalachian folkways and is a tribute to the many families who lived on lands that would later become the national park. All activities are free and open ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is hosting two musical performances entitled “Appalachian Range: Old Mountains, New Music” by the park’s Artist in Residence, Jackie Beckey. A classically trained violist, Beckey will perform the mountain-inspired, original music at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center on Sunday, Sept. 11, 2016 from 1­–2:30 p.m. and in Cades Cove at the Becky Cable House on Saturday, ...

A tree fell upon a vehicle traveling the Spur on Thursday night, killing the driver. According to Dana Soehn, spokesperson for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, rangers responded to a report of a single-car motor vehicle collision on the southbound Spur (US-441/US-321) at approximately 11:23 p.m. on Thursday, Sept. 1, 2016. A tree along the roadside appeared to have ...

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is exhibiting over 200 utilitarian clay works by 93 leading artists in the ceramics field. We invite you to view all four exhibits in the Sandra J. Blain Gallery, Geoffrey A. Wolpert Gallery and Drown Gallery. Admission is free and open to the public. Gallery hours are Monday-Friday 9 a.m.-5 p.m. and Saturday 10 ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, dignitaries, and special guests gathered at Park Headquarters on Thursday to celebrate the 100th birthday of the National Park Service. The celebration held August 25, 2016, known as Founders Day, honors the historic moment in 1916 when President Woodrow Wilson signed the act that created the National Park Service. US Senator Lamar Alexander (TN), US ...

Friends of the Smokies raised $205,562 Wednesday at its 22nd annual Friends Across the Mountains Telethon thanks to hundreds of callers, online donations and support from sponsors Dollywood, Mast General Store, Pilot Flying J, Tennessee State Bank, and The Lodge at Buckberry Creek. Since 1995, Friends of the Smokies’ telethons have raised more than $3.5 million in support of America’s ...

Friends of the Smokies hosts the 22nd annual Friends Across the Mountains Telethon to benefit Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Wednesday night. The event has a long history as the only telethon for a national park, and has raised more than $3.2 million. “Later this week, on August 25, the National Park Service marks 100 years of protecting America’s most special ...