For a $100 donation you could help a good cause and possibly find yourself with the keys to a log cabin near Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The donation goes to the Big Brothers Big Sisters organization of western North Carolina.

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Maps are wonderful things to have, even if you do no more with them than pull them out, ponder over them for a while, and then return them to safe storage.

After nine years of nurturing an elk herd, biologists at Great Smoky Mountains National Park believe they can remove the “experiemental” tag from the herd and develop a long-term management program for it.

“Since we released the first elk into the park in 2001 we have been gathering data to assess the long-term viability of elk in the Smokies, along with evaluating t

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It’s time for GSMA’s Annual Membership Weekend!!! Registration deadline is September 3. Call (865) 436-7318, extension 222 or 254.
Thanks to all those Great Smoky Mountains Association members who came along on a trip to Cades Cove for monarch tagging during our annual meeting last year. Special thanks to the Sheffield family for bringing along some [...]

One of the great aspects about being a youngster in the national parks is becoming a Junior Ranger.

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Driving a large motor home can be tricky on the smoothest and straightest of roads, but traveling through Great Smoky Mountains National Park carries its own risks, as seven visitors discovered Monday when their RV slid 100 feet down a slope, injuring six of the occupants.

The accident occurred around noon Eastern standard time when Robert McCanna Reilly III, of Miam

Looking for an excuse to take a hike? Then head to Great Smoky Mountains National Park and help rangers identify the locations of ash trees in the park.

During an upcoming stretch of Saturdays park biologists will be working to collect data and map locations of ash trees in parts of the park.

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If you want to visit Rainbow Falls in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the immediate future, be careful with your plans or you’ll have to make a longer hike to do so.

The shortest route to the falls has been via the trailhead off the Cherokee Orchard Road.

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It’s long been said that you should take only photographs and leave only footprints when you visit a national park.

A summer archeological field program at Great Smoky Mountains National Park offered more than science for a group of students from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians (EBCI)—it also allowed them to connect with their ancestral past.

At first glance, a description of the topics covered in the program is quite impressive: “Students participated in archeological

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