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• Wayward Hikers Demonstrate How Easy It Is To Get Lost In Great Smoky Mountains National Park

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 586
  There are places in Great Smoky Mountains National Park that the old timers called "hells" they were such a tangle of vegetation. Well, a young trio of hikers realized that the hard way when they wandered off a marked trail and quickly found themselves lost. read more
  11 hours ago

• Work On Foothills Parkway at Great Smoky Mountains National Park Could Surprise Some Folks

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 586
  If you use the unopened portion of the Foothills Parkway at Great Smoky Mountains National Park, keep an eye out for motorized vehicles in the coming weeks. read more
  1 day ago

• Why are there handprints on the ceiling of the Primitive Baptist Church in Cades Cove?

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 433
  Why are there handprints on the ceiling of the Primitive Baptist Church in Cades Cove within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park? The Great Smoky Mountains Association answers this question, along with others in their latest video that highlights the three remaining churches in Cades Cove: Jeff ...
  2 days ago

• Road Work Will Be Highly Visible in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2010

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 586
  Orange will be highly visible in Great Smoky Mountains National Park early next year, as road work ramps up around the park thanks to an infusion of funds via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as well as the Federal Lands Highway Program. While that work will produce some long-needed improvements, it also ...
  2 days ago

• Smokies area receives bad rating from National Geographic Traveler

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 433
  The Knoxville News Sentinel is reporting that the National Geographic Traveler magazine has rated Great Smoky Mountains National Park as one of the "Places with Troubles." The publications sixth annual rating of 133 worldwide travel destinations characterized the Smokies as "a national treasure surrounded by a ...
  4 days ago

• Closed section of Foothills Parkway West will see some construction traffic for 6 weeks.

  
  Smoky Mountains Information: Your Smokies — Authority: 110
  One of hidden secrets of the Great Smoky Mountains national park are the 2 incomplete sections of the Foothills Parkway off 321 which has some stunning vistas and hikers, bicyclists, horseback riders and even leased dogs are allowed. Both of these long "trails" offer visitors a chance to explore nature for long ...
  4 days ago

• Are The Smoky Mountains Recession Friendly?

  
  Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog — Authority: 114
  It was recently announced that 9 million Great Smoky Mountain National Park visitors spent $800million during the past year which is the most of any US National Park. My first thought is that the nearly $90 per person spending is pretty good given that we are in the middle of a very difficult recession. We have ...
  6 days ago

• Controlled burns to take place in Cades Cove section of the Great Smoky Mountains national park.

  
  Smoky Mountains Information: Your Smokies — Authority: 110
  Cades Cove in the north western section of the Great Smoky Mountains national park will be ground zero for 3 planned controlled burns this week performed by national park service firefighters as a cost effective method to keep the historic fields in the valley from becoming a forest. Prescribed burns in Cades ...
  6 days ago

• The fortress of Woolly Tops

  
  Endless streams and forests — Authority: 103
  On our recent expedition over Woolly Tops in the Greenbrier section of the Smokies, my camera was submerged and destroyed when I waded down a flooded stream.  I will soon add some photos borrowed from my companions. Woolly Tops is a fortress of solid stone sheathed in a mat of snarled vegetation.  On its north ...
  6 days ago

• Autumn postcard from the Great Smoky Mountains

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 433
  In case you couldn’t make it to the Smokies this fall, you can still check out this excellent video from the Great Smoky Mountains Association. Its called An Autumn Postcard from the Smokies : Jeff HikingintheSmokys.com Detailed information on trails in the Smoky Mountains; includes trail ...
  1 week ago

• Top 10 places for fall colors

  
  The Survive and Thrive Boomer Guide — Authority: 127
  A reader enjoyed the photo slideshow I posted yesterday of my top 100 photos of fall foliage in and around the Olympia, Wash., area. She said she’d like to see the fall colors in other areas. See “Fall Leaves: 10 Places for Vibrant Foliage” on The Huffington Post Web site for brilliant displays of ...
  1 week ago

• How Interstate 40s Closure Is Affecting Travel To Great Smoky Mountains National Park

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 586
  It could take three months or longer to clean up a rock slide and reopen a section of Interstate 40 on the North Carolina side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. That means getting to the park from some areas will be a bit tricky. It also means dont rely on your GPS units to find a shortcut, as that could spell ...
  1 week ago

• New Wal-Mart in Gatlinburg??

  
  Gatlinburg Real Estate Blog — Authority: 114
  Not really, but I did wonder what this Wal-Mart driver was thinking when he tried to come down Ski Mountain Rd. through Chalet Village. Dont know if he was relying on a GPS unit that was malfunctioning but you just cant get a semi trailer down (or up) the mountain through the hairpin curve. Sadly, this happened ...
  1 week ago

• Smokies are less smoky

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 433
  As I mentioned yesterday I received the Great Smoky Mountains Association Cup Report in my email box this week. The report also made another announcement that I thought was quite interesting: The air quality in the park has continued to improve over the last ten years. Visibility on the haziest days is up 18%, ...
  1 week ago

• Big Bear Lake Cabins

  
  gothinking.net — Authority: 151
  If you are thinking a trip, you may poverty to study a cabin property as your lodging. Cabins module substance you the rest and slackening that you deserve. Cabin rentals substance many wonderful accommodations for your pleasure. This identify of abidance is decent more favourite with tourists everywhere. They are ...
  1 week ago

• Falls Arrival Means Fewer Open Roads and Campgrounds To Use at Great Smoky Mountains National Park

  
  National Parks Traveler — Authority: 586
  Some roads and campgrounds soon will be gated closed in Great Smoky Mountains National Park as crews ready the park for winter. read more
  1 week ago

• Landslide in Great Smoky Mountains national park cleared but clearing I-40 will take many months.

  
  Smoky Mountains Information: Your Smokies — Authority: 110
  This has been some leaf season in the Smokies! Multiple rock and landslides within weeks create traffic nightmares for many, but fortunately yesterdays landslide in the Great Smoky Mountains national park took the park and Blalock Construction less than 24 hours to clear but the I-40 landslide only 3 miles from the ...
  1 week ago

• 100th native tree discovered in Smokies

  
  The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog — Authority: 433
  Yesterday I received the Cub Report in my email box. This is the monthly E-newsletter from the Great Smoky Mountains Association . The report announced that a new species of tree was recently discovered in the park. Here’s their report: Park rangers have just discovered the 100th species of tree native to the ...
  1 week ago

• Weekend workshop in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Jerry D. Greer)

  
  Mountain Trail Photo Blog — Authority: 110
  Wow, what a workshop! It started out perfectly with beautiful rainy conditions giving us perfect soft light for the Friday evening “greet & shoot” and continued on into Saturday morning. Saturday night was spectacular on Clingmans Dome. We witnessed an awesome display with the low clouds below rolling across ...
  1 week ago

• The National Parks Are Great For Adventure

  
  Pinchisgringos.com — Authority: 460
  Those that love to travel are choosing to take a National Park vacation because of the unsurpassed beauty of the great outdoors preserved in these national treasures. There are more than 50 National Parks in the United States and all feature some kind of unique sights that are probably not found anywhere else in the ...
  1 week ago

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