Jun 19, 2009
We had scarcely been in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for an hour, when we found ourselves face-to-face (OK, I’m exaggerating a bit) with a large female elk grazing near the old barn at the park’s Mountain Farm Museum.
“I think you can move closer,&rdquo…
Jun 19, 2009
Brad Free has been a ranger in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for eight years. He offers some tips for visitors to the park.
If you have only one day in the park, what should you do?
Travel from lower to higher elevations by starting at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, and …
May 28, 2009
Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, bisecting the park in an unbroken chain that rises more than 5,000 feet for over 36 miles. The largest federally protected upland reserve east of the Mississippi…
May 28, 2009
Becoming a national park was not easy for the Smokies. Joining the National Park System took a lot of money and a lot of work by thousands of people. Establishing most of the older parks located in the western United States, such as Yellowstone, was fairly easy. Congress merely carved them o…
