A parkwide fire ban has been issued for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park due to dry conditions and low relative ...

Spring visits to the Smokies will be different this year. Areas are closed and program start dates are delayed amid federal staffing and budget cuts.

Some of the items in stores at visitor centers have an extra connection to the park: they're the work of current or retired rangers and volunteers.

Conservation groups say the closures could be because of recent federal budget cuts to the National Park Service.

During the ban, the only burning and cooking allowed is with cookstoves with gas containers and gas grills with on/off ...

Park service officials said Monday the burn ban had been lifted and that visitors could now have campfires and use charcoal ...

On a recent trip to Tennessee, I lost count of how many people told me the same strange and unusual thing about Great Smoky Mountains National Park. If you stacked up all of the park’s salamanders ...

This story is part of the Forty for Forty Project: 40 outings in 40 weeks to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the.

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore, stranded on the ISS for nine months due to technical issues with their Starliner, are returning to Earth on March 18, 2025. During their extended ...