SmokiesLife lead writer Holly Kays looks into Great Smoky Mountain National Park's artist-in-residence program ...

Fortunately, Tennessee and North Carolina — the two states that share Great Smoky Mountains National Park — each have plenty of amazing Great Smoky Mountains alternatives. On the Tennessee side, the ...

Unlike some other American national parks, Great Smoky Mountains National Park can't charge entrance fees. It's the law. When Tennessee transferred land to the park, a restriction in the deed ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, unlike some other national parks across the United States, doesn't charge for admission. It legally can't.

Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg are the cities that likely first come to mind when you think about the Great Smoky Mountains in eastern Tennessee.

HARTFORD, Tenn. (AP) — Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky ...

Heavy rain, flooding and a rock slide have again closed a section of the major cross country highway Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains.

Mother Nature has brought travel to a halt in the Great Smoky Mountains, where a fresh round of torrential rain triggered both flooding and a rockslide, forcing the closure of a critical stretch ...

The flooded section is part of 12 miles of I-40 in North Carolina and Tennessee that was washed away or heavily damaged during Hurricane Helene.