Visitors have questions about the country’s most-visited national park amid the government shutdown. Here’s what’s open and what’s about to close.

While some roads remain closed for the winter, with Christmas approaching, the reopening of these key routes is good news for ...

Rangers in Great Smoky Mountains National Park safely rescued a young black bear using a backhoe and teamwork after it became ...

Unlike a lot of what’s happened during the shutdown, there is some precedent for how reimbursement could work.

There are plenty of experiences to have in the most visited national park in the country, but taking a cruise through the ...

US 441, commonly known as Newfound Gap Road, will be closing due to forecasted weather at 8 p.m. Currently, it is the only ...

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK (WVLT) - Native freshwater mussel species are beginning to return to a creek in the Great ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park staffers who had been furloughed have returned to work, but the shutdown's effects are still being assessed.

Newfound Gap Road is set to close late Dec. 4 as winter weather rolls through East Tennessee. Here's when and what the ...

Winter weather, especially in the high elevations, prompted the closure of U.S. 441/Newfound Gap Road and Foothills Parkway West Dec. 2.

A new study ranked the best U.S. national parks to visit in fall—Great Smoky Mountains tops the list, followed by Acadia, Zion, and Rocky Mountain.

A young black bear was rescued from a steep bank in Great Smoky Mountains National Park in October after onlookers formed a "bear jam." ...