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Newfound Gap Road US 441 Closes as winter storm hit Great Smoky Mountains national park.

29 Jan 2010 02:05:40 PST

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
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.

Original story at Your Smokies .

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Rockslide Near Great Smoky Mountains National Park Keeps Part of Spur Closed a Month or More

27 Jan 2010 06:19:52 PST

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
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...

Original story at Your Smokies .

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Smokies roads remain closed after snowfall

22 Dec 2009 06:35:33 PST

Great Smoky Mountains National Park staff is trying to get the road reopened by this afternoon after heavy weekend snowfall blanketed the major thoroughfare ... Latest road closings in SmokiesMaryville Daily Times

Original story at Knoxville News Sentinel .

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Cades Cove Loop Road is now open but many Great Smoky Mountains National Park roads remain closed

21 Dec 2009 09:23:38 PST

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
Drivers between Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg can use both the Spur section of the Foothills Parkway as well as the Gatlinburg bypass, which has stunning views right now looking over the city of Gatlinburg with Mount Le Conte in the distance.

Original story at Your Smokies .

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Road Conditions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Open and Closed Roads

20 Dec 2009 07:32:48 PST

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
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

Original story at Your Smokies .

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Smokies visits jump overall; Townsend visits remain flat

15 Dec 2009 00:13:47 PST

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 »

Original story at Maryville Daily Times .

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park news and blogs - February 26, 2010

26 Feb 2010 00:00:01 PDT

Below is today's roundup of news and blogs that haven't yet hit top story status by our community. Visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park news and blogs for even more news and blogs converage.

• Gov. Bev Perdue makes herself at home in Western North Carolina -- from Asheville Citizen-Times
• WNC a destination also for US senators -- from Asheville Citizen-Times
• Decorative Lights Offer Inexpensive Holiday Cheer -- from SmarterTravel.com
• Clinton landscaper all aboard his lifelong hobby -- from Knoxville News Sentinel
• Taking the Kids -- And Seeing Some Holiday Lights -- from Baltimore Sun
• US 64 closure in Tenn. to continue -- from Asheville Citizen-Times
• Newfound Gap Road and most GSMNP roads open. -- by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com) from Smoky Mountains Information: Your Smokies
• Game over: Court of Appeals resolves gambling dispute. -- from FayObserver.com
• Newfound Gap Road Remains Open, Elkmont Too. -- by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com) from Smoky Mountains Information: Your Smokies
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park hikers share stranded stories -- from WBIR-TV

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Hemlock efforts working in the Smokies

06 Dec 2009 21:17:07 PST

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 »

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Great Smoky Mountains national park seasonal construction road closures and conditions for hiking

27 Nov 2009 20:35:07 PST

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
This year will be changeling for many who want to visit the Great Smoky Mountains National Park during the winter and early spring as some of the federal stimulus money is being spent repairing Clingmans Dome Road, the Roaring Fork Motor Trail and finishing off the Foothills Parkway betw...

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Rock slides will mean more Thanksgiving traffic on detour routes

22 Nov 2009 21:25:09 PST

The other alternate route to Knoxville is US 441 through Cherokee and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The park often closes the highway when it ... and more »

Original story at Asheville Citizen-Times .

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Park officials track down elk poacher

21 Nov 2009 20:32:14 PST

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 »

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park Elk Poaching Suspect Confesses and Arrest is Emanate

16 Nov 2009 12:09:00 PST

Written by noreply@blogger.com (Smokies Hiker)
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.

Original story at Your Smokies .

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Elk poaching takes place in Cataloochee Valley in the Great Smoky Mountains national park.

13 Nov 2009 15:58:00 PST

Written by noreply@blogger.com (Smokies Hiker)
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...

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Friends, families of Smokies rededicate themselves to

05 Sep 2009 22:22:32 PDT

69 years ago on September 2, 1940 President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was present at the dedication of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ... knoxnews.com

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Search underway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for missing experienced hiker Albert Morgan Briggs

25 Aug 2009 16:39:12 PDT

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
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...

Original story at Your Smokies .

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Newfound Gap Road Closed from Cherokee NC to Newfound Gap Due to Fatal Crash

21 Aug 2009 05:08:57 PDT

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
Newfound Gap Road was also closed to southbound traffic from Gatlinburg to Newfound Gap until 1:30 pm. There may be possible charges pending completion of the accidents investigation by Great Smoky Mountains National Park Rangers.

Original story at Your Smokies .

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Limited Seats Available for Great Smoky Mountains National Parks 75th rededication

18 Aug 2009 02:33:34 PDT

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
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.

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Presumably Drowned Woman is Found Alive in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

01 Aug 2009 09:13:00 PDT

Written by noreply@blogger.com (Smokies Hiker)
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...

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ccc's contribution vital to part

16 May 2009 00:11:22 PDT

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 ...

Original story at Maryville Daily Times .

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The East Tennessee Whitewater Club begins another season

14 May 2009 20:55:00 PDT

TN South of Knoxville is the Tellico River, in the Cherokee National Forest, and the Little River, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Both are classic mountain streams that rise and subside suddenly according to rainfall. ...

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Good read becomes a good fundraiser

09 May 2009 21:10:23 PDT

TN I said, 'I don't want anything out of this, but I want to find a way to channel money back to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for stream improvements,'" Pitts added. University of North Carolina Press agreed to donate three percent of the net ...

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Elkmont plan available on Federal Register

08 May 2009 08:18:15 PDT

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. ...

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Advocate for former nuclear workers dies

04 May 2009 14:34:20 PDT

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. ...

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Guns No Longer Allowed in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Again.

20 Mar 2009 17:22:44 PDT

Written by Smokies Hiker(noreply@blogger.com)
Concealed, loaded weapons are no longer allowed in any of the nations National Parks since U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kennedy granted a temporary injunction late Thursday restoring rules that ban loaded, concealed firearms in national parks such as the Great Smoky Mountains.

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Opinion: park-Parks-All-TN-Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Photographing Great Smokey Mt.'s National Park in the Fall

30 Jul 2007 06:57:11 PDT

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...

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Tennessee man drowns in Smokies waterfall

05 Jun 2007 10:47:00 PDT

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.

Original story at Asheville Citizen-Times .

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