Bryson City and Swain County were not included under NC's limited access/no travel area rules following Helene, allowing the ...

AT maintainers celebrated by reblazing all 72 miles of the trail’s Great Smoky Mountains section with a fresh round of iconic white rectangles. Club volunteers gathered at the Smoky Mountains ...

More recent stories tell of the region’s logging and railroad boom through the early 1900s, eventually giving way to the creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The park, officially dedicated ...

Seth T. Kannarr is affiliated with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as an Education Branch VIP (Volunteer-In-Parks) part-time. Derek H. Alderman once served on the Federal Advisory ...

Norfolk Southern isn't the only affected railroad company. Lines owned by Blue Ridge Southern and Great Smoky Mountains Railroad sustained damage in the storm, with the former receiving around "$ ...

18, 2024, to formally agree to rename the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park of Tennessee to Kuwohi (koo-whoa-hee). The mountain, known as “Clingmans Dome” since 1859 ...

The plan to restore passenger rail travel to Asheville has been years in the making, but Helene may have thrown the plan off ...

The railroad is another great way to see the ... Newfound Gap Road is located inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park giving leaf-peepers a stunning 33 mile show. The scenic byway starts ...