The number of National Park Service employees who keep more than 400 sites running is dwindling thanks to layoffs, buyouts.

However, travelers also mentioned that the visitor center can get particularly crowded during the fall elk rut. Parkgoers recommended visiting the Mountain Farm Museum and praised the center's ...

According to recent travelers, the Sugarlands Visitor Center should be your first stop in the park. The center features extensive natural history exhibits and screens a free 20-minute film about ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is urging visitor to be "Bear Aware" as black bears begin coming out of hibernation ...

Morale is also low at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A dozen workers were let go at the park. That includes visitor center workers, educational workers and ranger-led staff, along with ...

When you're hiking in the Smokies, keep an eye out for snakes - but remember that humans probably see only 10% of the snakes that are out there.

Once when they physically pass away, and once when their name is never said again.” Back at the Burton Ogle Cemetery, a roughly 2-mile hike from Sugarlands Visitor Center, Roberts surveyed the forest ...

More recently, visitors to the Oconaluftee Visitor ... Meldrum currently works part-time as a tour guide at the Great Smoky ...

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK (WATE ... which can be accessed about 6.9 miles south/east of the Sugarlands Visitor Center on Newfound Gap Road. (GSMNP/Kristina Plaas) One of the longer ...

South Mountain Park and Preserve recently reopened the Visitor Center located through the Central Avenue entrance to the park.