Tag Archives: Great Smoky Mountains

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 ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indian (EBCI) leadership met to discuss the recently modified regulation governing the gathering of plants in national parks. The rule, which went into effect on August 11, 2016, now allows members of federally recognized Indian tribes to request to enter into agreement with the National Park Service to ...

A Georgia woman was struck and killed Friday by an oncoming vehicle after getting out of her car to view a snake on the Foothills Parkway West. According to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, 64-year-old Shirley Jean Alexander Clifton, of Woodstock, Ga., was struck and killed by an oncoming vehicle after she exited the vehicle in which she had been ...

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 ...

Tourists from Ohio captured a black bear bandit on video as it rifled through belongings in the back of their vehicle at a Gatlinburg rental cabin. According to a video posted to YouTube on Aug. 16, 2016, a group of visitors had just arrived at their rental cabin in Gatlinburg and were unpacking their luggage from the back of the ...

A South Carolina man who pleaded guilty to the murder of a man last year inside the historic Smokemont Baptist Church in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been sentenced to more than 16 years in prison. During a hearing on Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Martin Reidinger ordered 23-year-old Forrest Dakota Hill, of Easley, S.C., to serve 200 months ...