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Visitation to Great Smoky Mountains National Park during the summer of 2015, nearly matched the record pace of last year. A total of 3,958,131 visitors came to the park during June, July, and August. Last year 3,963,131 visitors came to the park during the same time period, numbers that pushed the park to its highest visitation since 2000. Visitation continues ...

To the Editor: If Congress fails to reach a federal budget resolution by midnight, September 30, 2015, Great Smoky Mountains National Park and hundreds of other National Park Service sites in America will close to the public indefinitely. Great Smoky Mountains National Park hosts over 35,000 visitors on average each DAY in October. Nationally, more than 715,000 visitors a day ...

A multi-agency task force set out early this morning to round up 119 people on drug presentments returned by a recent Sevier County Grand Jury. The drug charges were the result a six-month undercover operation by the Sevier County Sheriff’s Street Crimes Unit, a joint effort consisting of officers from the Sheriff’s Office, and police departments from the cities of ...

Autumn in Gatlinburg is a special time of year. Set against the backdrop of mountains painted with brilliant fall color, Gatlinburg is consistently recognized as one of the top places to see fall foliage in the United States. Downtown Gatlinburg follows suit, as the whole city is adorned with lavish fall decorations to kickoff Smoky Mountain Harvest Festival. Combine beautiful ...

Gatlinburg Youth Football League has partnered with Rocky Top Sports World to host the 44th Annual Smoky Mountain Thanksgiving Youth Football Tournament. In previous years, the tournament hosted more than 120 teams coming from ten states to compete in the football tournament. With the availability of seven fields at Rocky Top Sports World, the event goal is to reach record ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in cooperation with the Smoky Mountains Astronomical Society, will offer a 2 ½-hour stargazing program in Cades Cove on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 beginning at 7:30 p.m. Experienced astronomers and numerous telescopes will be on hand to provide a discovery of the autumn sky’s position of stars, galaxies, and constellations, including the Milky Way. In ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host the annual Mountain Life Festival at the Mountain Farm Museum Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. All activities are free and open to the public. The festival preserves the legacy of Appalachian folkways and is a tribute to the many families who lived on lands that would later become ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced the closure of the Whiteoak Sink area effective now through March 31, 2016 to limit human disturbance to bat hibernacula and help hikers avoid interactions with bats. Park biologists will be monitoring the site throughout the winter collecting population, ecological and behavioral data that will inform resource managers developing a long-term protection plan. ...

Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts is inviting the public to the Geoffrey A. Gallery from Sept. 11 to Nov. 7, 2015 to view Time, a collaborative exhibit by Blair Clemo and Jason Hackett. The exhibit showcases an array of utilitarian and sculptural ceramic works measuring time through developed surfaces, symbolic image, and historic and geologic form. Clemo’s work explores ...

The American Bus Association announced today that Gatlinburg’s July 4th Celebration has been designated as one of the Top 100 Events in North America and the Gatlinburg Beans and Cornbread Festival has been named a Top 100 Event to Watch for 2016. Chosen by an experienced expert tourism industry selection committee, the events list will be published as a supplement ...