Winter does not mean you have to lock the kids inside and wait for spring.Snow actually turns the parks into giant tracking sheets, where every paw print ...

As 2025 comes to a close, we are all turning our sights to 2026 to see what the next year holds for us in many aspects. In ...

More than 30 apple trees persist on The Purchase at the national park. They're more than 125 years old, and their DNA is being studied.

Great Smoky is rich in wildlife, ranging from humongous “hellbenders” (a type of salamander) and wild hogs to 500-pound (227-kg) black bears and heavily anterled elk that resulted from a recovery ...

After a delayed start, vehicle-free days at Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will return this summer. The Smokies will offer the first Cades Cove vehicle-free day of the year in June ...

CADES COVE, Tenn. (WATE) — The 2025 start date for vehicle-free days at Cades Cove has been announced after being delayed in May. Great Smoky Mountains National Park announced that the vehicle-free ...

CADES COVE, Tenn. (WATE) — Cades Cove‘s vehicle-free Wednesdays will start in June instead of May this year, the National Park Service announced. In previous years, vehicle-free Wednesdays started in ...

Imagine a water slide on Clingman’s Dome, a Ferris wheel in Cades Cove or a road running to Andrews Bald. I first typed those words back in 1991 when I was a reporter for The Knoxville Journal. The ...

Surrounded by mountains, Cades Cove is an isolated, fertile valley. An 11-mile, one-way loop road surrounds the valley and is one of the best places in the park to view wildlife. Once a hunting ground ...

So many visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park ‒ especially the ones staying in Gatlinburg or Pigeon Forge ‒ ask themselves this: Is Cades Cove worth going to? In one enthusiastic word: Yes!

For the first time in 50 years, someone whose last name isn’t Campbell will be working as a head winemaker for Elk Cove Vineyards. Elk Cove announced Tuesday that Heather Perkin would take over the ...

There isn’t much that can entice me to venture out on Thanksgiving weekend, especially anything that involves heading toward Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg. I’m just not into holiday-related traffic if it ...