The fate of democracy was fragile when President Franklin Delano Roosevelt dedicated the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...

If you’re a traveler who lives for wide-open landscapes and timeless forest trails, you might assume that Great Smoky ...

From bears and bobcats to eagles and elk, 22,893 species have been documented so far in Great Smoky Mountains National Park — and nearly half of them are insects. Becky Nichols, the park’s long-time ...

A Friends of the Smokies program that preserves historic structures in the Great Smoky Mountains is now fully funded thanks ...

After six years of fundraising, the Friends of the Smokies have raised enough to support their $9 million Forever Places ...

The country’s most-visited national park had its lowest attendance since 2018. But the longest government shutdown in history ...

Here's when Newfound Gap Road and other streets through the Smokies are closed to traffic this weekend due to snow, ice and damaging winds.

The Boyd Foundation has donated $750,000 to Friends of the Smokies, working to continue preservation work in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The Smokies didn’t get a lot of snow and ice from the recent winter storm, but some roads in the park are still closed. Here’s why.

Lichens are complex organisms, created by a mutually beneficial relationship between fungus and either algae or cyanobacteria. Lichens can display a wide variety of forms and colors, and you've ...

A $750,000 donation from the Boyd Foundation is enough for Friends of the Smokies to complete their $9 million ‘Forever Places Endowment’. 6 News learned more about what this means for the Great Smoky ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park's Gatlinburg Bypass in Tennessee remains closed as crews continue cleanup following a significant landslide on Sept. 27, the National Parks Service announced ...