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Newfound Gap Road US 441 Closes as winter storm hit Great Smoky Mountains national park.
First, it was Old State Road 284 from Big Creek to Cataloochee that closed due to winter storm conditions and now it is Newfound Gap Road US 441 between Cherokee North Carolina and Gatlinburg Tennessee. Snow is falling hard and sticking to the road surface below the Chimneys already.
Fri, Jan 29 | from Your Smokies
Rockslide Near Great Smoky Mountains National Park Keeps Part of Spur Closed a Month or More
This Monday a significant rockslide fell onto the southbound lanes of the Spur section of the Foothills Parkway (US 441) a few hundred yards south of traffic light 10 in Pigeon Forge on the way to Gatlinburg Tennessee and experts now predict that the cleanup and stabilization of the slope...
Wed, Jan 27 | from Your Smokies
Road Conditions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Open and Closed Roads
Open Roads in the in the Great Smoky Mountains national park: US 441 Newfound Gap Road between Cherokee NC + Gatlinburg TN Cataloochee Entrance Road NC Toms Branch Road NC Lake View Drive NC Laurel Creek Road Past Treemont TN Cades Cove Loop Road TN
Sun, Dec 20 | from Your Smokies
Smokies visits jump overall; Townsend visits remain flat
The number of visits to Great Smoky Mountains National Park is on track to finish at 9.4 million by the end of the year. Entries into the Park ... November visits to Smokies up 8.7 percentGreenville Daily Reflector all 23 news articles »
Tue, Dec 15 | from Maryville Daily Times
Hemlock efforts working in the Smokies
Evidence of the voracious appetite of the nearly microscopic hemlock woolly adelgid can be seen throughout Great Smoky Mountains National Park, ... Daunting threat to save timberChattanooga Times Free Press all 2 news articles »
Sun, Dec 6 | from Asheville Citizen-Times
Park officials track down elk poacher
21, an icon of bull elk in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park - one of the biggest in the valley, said park spokesman Bob Miller. ... Charges pending in elk poachingAsheville Citizen-Times Suspected elk poacher tracked downWBTV all 29 news articles »
Sat, Nov 21 | from Knoxville News Sentinel
Great Smoky Mountains National Park Elk Poaching Suspect Confesses and Arrest is Emanate
A joint investigation to find the poacher who shot an elk in the Great Smoky Mountains national park was started utilizing Park Rangers, and National Park Service (NPS) Special Agent, and the North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission.
Mon, Nov 16 | from Your Smokies
Elk poaching takes place in Cataloochee Valley in the Great Smoky Mountains national park.
Poaching of natural and cultural artifacts is a serious problem in all of our national parks. Poaching in the Great Smoky Mountains national park and the adjoining Blue Ridge Parkway is most commonly to plants such as ramps, ginseng, and wildflowers such as lady slippers as well as wildli...
Fri, Nov 13 | from Your Smokies
Search underway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for missing experienced hiker Albert Morgan Briggs
One of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's first Appalachian Trail Ridge Runner 70 year old Albert "Morgan" Briggs is the subject of a large search stared Wednesday by rangers and volunteers who have already hiked numerous trails and interviewed other hikers who may have seen thi...
Tue, Aug 25 | from Your Smokies
Limited Seats Available for Great Smoky Mountains National Parks 75th rededication
And if all this is not enough to make you want to come to the Great Smoky Mountains National Parks 75th anniversary rededication at Newfound Gap on September 2nd, Dolly Parton has graciously agreed to perform 2 songs she had written about the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Tue, Aug 18 | from Your Smokies
Presumably Drowned Woman is Found Alive in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Miraculously the woman who jumped into the Great Smoky Mountains National Parks Little River which was rain swollen presumably to take her life and refused to be rescued by a park ranger, was spotted by a Park Volunteer at 10:45 am crossing the Little River at the Townsend Wye and was in the...
Sat, Aug 1 | from Your Smokies
ccc's contribution vital to part
TN Cades Cove and Tremont were in the newly formed Great Smoky Mountains National Park, with Elkmont Camp in Sevier County. (This writer's father was stationed at Elkmont.) One veteran remembered there were five camps in East Tennessee and the same number ...
Sat, May 16 | from Maryville Daily Times
Elkmont plan available on Federal Register
TN By News Sentinel staff GATLINBURG - The final environmental impact statement for the Elkmont Historic District in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been published in the Federal Register, and is available for public review. ...
Fri, May 8 | from Knoxville News Sentinel
Advocate for former nuclear workers dies
TN On another side, Anderson volunteered in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and helped to maintain the trails. She was also involved in a well-publicized search many years ago when the son of the editor of Southern Living was lost in the Smokies. ...
Mon, May 4 | from Maryville Daily Times
Opinion: park-Parks-All-TN-Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Photographing Great Smokey Mt.'s National Park in the Fall
rating: 5/5 by: Epinions Author robertchappell - I have been traveling to the GSMNP in the fall for over ten years. Living in Georgia makes it easy to drive the 3 hours from my house to Clingmon's Dome. My review is geared more to those who come in the fall to photograph the colors. One thing I have...
Mon, Jul 30 | from Epinions Recent Reviews for park
Tennessee man drowns in Smokies waterfall
GATLINBURG, Tenn., -- Rescuers recovered the body of a 24-year-old Tennessee man Monday night after he reportedly trapped himself and drowned in the Little River area known as the "Sinks," a popular waterfall in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Tue, Jun 5 | from Asheville Citizen-Times
