• Thumbnail for Great Smoky Mountains National Park
    park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain...
    124 KB (13,547 words) - 06:51, 4 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Great Smoky Mountains
    The Great Smoky Mountains (Cherokee: ᎡᏆ ᏚᏧᏍᏚ ᏙᏓᎸ, Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv) are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern...
    65 KB (6,878 words) - 23:24, 4 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires
    most impacted were Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fires claimed at least 14 lives, injured 190, and is...
    24 KB (2,117 words) - 22:51, 24 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Oconaluftee (Great Smoky Mountains)
    community, the valley is now North Carolina's main entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Oconaluftee gradually broadens from Smokemont in the...
    22 KB (2,702 words) - 06:22, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Clingmans Dome
    elevation of 6,643 feet (2,025 m), it is the highest mountain in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the highest point in the state of Tennessee, and...
    26 KB (2,778 words) - 18:08, 26 April 2024
  • The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to over 1,500 different species of flowering plants—more than any other North American national park, earning...
    12 KB (533 words) - 16:08, 10 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cataloochee (Great Smoky Mountains)
    the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, located in the Southeastern United States. Now a recreational and historic area within the Great Smoky Mountains...
    27 KB (3,749 words) - 19:48, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Guyot (Great Smoky Mountains)
    the Eastern U.S., and the second-highest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. While the mountain is remote, the Appalachian Trail crosses its south...
    13 KB (1,347 words) - 02:39, 19 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greenbrier (Great Smoky Mountains)
    northern Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. Now a recreational area located within the Great Smoky Mountains National...
    25 KB (3,432 words) - 15:45, 18 December 2023
  • Thumbnail for Blue Ridge Mountains
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the southern section. The Blue Ridge Parkway, a 469-mile (755 km) long scenic highway, connects the two parks and...
    18 KB (1,549 words) - 01:12, 24 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Old Black (Great Smoky Mountains)
    south, Old Black is the 5th-highest mountain in Tennessee and the 7th-highest in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Appalachian Trail crosses its...
    9 KB (912 words) - 16:46, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
    Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park located in a region of the Appalachian Mountains referred to as the Great Smoky Mountains...
    29 KB (4,443 words) - 18:30, 17 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Sterling (Great Smoky Mountains)
    the Smokies (Gatlinburg, Tenn.: Great Smoky Mountains Association, 2003), 159-162. Godshalk, 64-66. Carson Brewer, Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Portland...
    6 KB (805 words) - 16:53, 5 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for Roaring Fork (Great Smoky Mountains)
    Roaring Fork is a stream in the Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee, located in the southeastern United States. Once the site of a small Appalachian community...
    15 KB (1,943 words) - 22:48, 16 December 2023
  • The Great Smoky Mountains Parkway is a highway that travels 23.4 miles (37.7 km) between the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Interstate 40 (I-40)...
    17 KB (1,732 words) - 03:10, 31 March 2024
  • 13 National parks in North Carolina. Only the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a traditional park. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is also...
    4 KB (138 words) - 15:29, 28 March 2023
  • Thumbnail for List of national parks of the United States
    (890 km2). The national parks set a visitation record in 2021, with more than 92 million visitors. Great Smoky Mountains National Park in North Carolina...
    85 KB (2,709 words) - 18:24, 9 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cades Cove
    Cades Cove (category National Register of Historic Places in Great Smoky Mountains National Park)
    section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The valley was home to numerous settlers before the formation of the national park. Cades Cove, the...
    34 KB (4,370 words) - 05:59, 5 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Appalachian Mountains
    North Carolina Press. p. 8. ISBN 9781469619798. Rose Houk, Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Natural History Guide (Boston: Houghton-Mifflin, 1993)...
    85 KB (9,157 words) - 14:04, 29 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Mount Le Conte (Tennessee)
    Mount Le Conte (Tennessee) (category Mountains of Great Smoky Mountains National Park)
    Mount Le Conte (or LeConte) is a mountain located within the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Sevier County, Tennessee. At 6,593 ft (2,010 m) it...
    17 KB (1,630 words) - 20:13, 17 February 2024
  • Disappearance of Dennis Martin (category Great Smoky Mountains National Park)
    1969, in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee at the age of six. The search effort was the most extensive in the park's history, involving...
    12 KB (1,296 words) - 04:07, 17 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Elkmont, Tennessee
    ranger station, and historic district maintained by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The Little River Lumber Company established the town of...
    24 KB (3,100 words) - 07:17, 12 April 2024
  • Over more than 20 years, the Smokies ATBI has added more than 10,000 species records for Great Smoky Mountains National Park, including more than 1,000...
    35 KB (4,209 words) - 21:32, 11 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laura Thornburgh
    film editor who was best known for her 1937 guidebook to Great Smoky Mountains National Park, published under the pen name Laura Thornborough. Her landmark...
    19 KB (2,134 words) - 01:53, 23 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Hazel Creek (Great Smoky Mountains)
    communities and logging towns before its incorporation into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hazel Creek is now a back country campsite and historical...
    30 KB (3,900 words) - 19:40, 8 October 2023
  • Thumbnail for Blue Ridge Parkway
    the Appalachian Mountains. Its southern terminus is at U.S. Route 441 (US 441) on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Qualla...
    65 KB (4,805 words) - 06:13, 7 April 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thunderhead Mountain
    Thunderhead Mountain is a 5,527-foot (1,685 m) mountain in the west-central part of the Great Smoky Mountains, located in the southeastern United States...
    9 KB (947 words) - 20:28, 8 March 2024
  • Thumbnail for Wolf reintroduction
    seen in the vicinity of the park was in 1905. In 1991, two pairs were reintroduced into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Despite some early success...
    42 KB (5,288 words) - 11:28, 28 April 2024
  • a comprehensive listing of the bird species recorded in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which is in the U.S. states of North Carolina and Tennessee...
    31 KB (3,738 words) - 18:41, 3 July 2023
  • historical structures located within and maintained by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Structures at Cades Cove, Roaring Fork, the Noah Ogle Place...
    16 KB (235 words) - 15:47, 20 March 2022