Tag Archives: Gatlinburg

Trails, campsites and a shelter in the Hazel Creek area reopened today, after being closed since the bear attack nearly a month ago. Officials with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced Thursday, July 2, 2015, that Hazel Creek Trail, Jenkins Ridge Trail, Bone Valley Trail, Cold Spring Gap Trail, Derrick Knob Shelter, and backcountry campsites 82, 83, 84, 85, ...

The 40th annual Gatlinburg 4th of July Midnight Parade steps off at 12:01 a.m. on Saturday, July 4, 2015 to the cheers of close to 80,000 spectators. For 40 years, the Parade has honored our nation’s Military Veterans and other U.S. Military Heroes with this classic, small town American parade. The First Independence Day Parade in the Nation has garnered ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials reopened the Cosby entrance road, campground, and picnic area this morning. The area has been closed due to flood damage since June 22, 2015 when flash flooding along Rock Creek spilled over the banks. Park maintenance crews cleared rocks and debris from the roadway and repaired over 1,000 feet of road shoulders where the ...

Sevier County Mayor Larry Waters has called a Special Session of the Sevier County Commission at 6 p.m. on Monday, June 29, 2015 in room 306w of the Sevier County Courthouse, 125 Court Ave. in historic downtown Sevierville, Tenn. A number of items are on the Sevier County Commission agenda, including: Consideration of a resolution determining the certified tax rate ...

The Sevier County Clerk’s office will now issue marriage licenses to all couples, both opposite-sex and same-sex couples who apply to marry. In Sevier County and across Tennessee, government offices are preparing to make marriage licenses available to same-sex couples after the Supreme Court ruled on Friday, June 26, 2015 that states cannot ban same-sex couples from marrying and must ...

More than 1,000 animals featured in the new “Swarm” exhibit will captivate visitors to Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies. Animals that swarm are the stars of the 2015 Swarm exhibit, which opened Tuesday at Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg. The exhibit has 20 fun interactives to experience, along with habitats of live Halloween Crabs, Herding Catfish, Flashlight Fish, ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced the temporary closure of the Cosby entrance road due to flood damage. On June 22, 2015 at approximately 4 p.m., flash flooding along Rock Creek spilled over the banks damaging road shoulders along 1,500 linear feet of the Cosby entrance road. Underground electric and phone lines were exposed along most of the road ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials received DNA results from the bear attack occurring at backcountry campsite 84 where a 16-year old male from Ohio was seriously injured by a bear on June 6, 2015. Immediately following the report of the attack, rangers and wildlife biologists implemented an action plan that included clearing the Hazel Creek backcountry area of hikers ...

Mike Werner, mayor of Gatlinburg, was elected to the board of directors of the Tennessee Municipal League during the League’s annual conference recently held in Nashville. Curtis Hayes, mayor of Livingston was elected President. A five-member nominating committee composed of municipal officials statewide nominated Werner as a director at large. He was then elected for a one-year term by a ...

The Gatlinburg Farmers Market will hold its second in a series of Kids Days on Saturday June 27, 2015 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Covered Bridge in the Great Smoky Arts and Crafts Community. Scheduled for the day are several activities: The Girl Scouts – Smoky Shadows Troop will demonstrate and help kids make “seed bombs” to take ...