Summer hikers are often drawn to water and the park’s higher elevations. Above 5,000′, summer temperatures are frequently 10-15degrees F cooler than in the lowlands.Rushing streams and waterfalls naturally cool the air on sultry summer days.
Following are a few suggestions to get you out onto some on the park’s shorter and easier trails. For more [...]

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The establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National Park was no small accomplishment and the park’s 75th anniversary is no small celebration.
The grassroots movement to create Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the 1920s and ’30s was truly a labor of love.
Much of the painstaking work was accomplished by citizens in Knoxville, TN and Asheville, NC [...]

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