Tag Archives: Great Smoky Mountains

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash and City of Gatlinburg Mayor Mike Werner invite the public to join them on a hike along the Gatlinburg Trail in the Smokies on Saturday, Aug. 20, 2016 at 9 a.m. in honor of the National Park Service Centennial. Hikers should meet in front of Sugarlands Visitor Center to begin the 4-mile, ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash announced that Nigel A. Fields has been selected as the next Chief of Resource Education. He replaces Liz Dupree, who retired at the end of last year. Nigel most recently served as the Chief of Interpretation and Education for New Orleans Jazz National Historical Park and Jean Lafitte National Historical Park and ...

Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies and Ripley’s Attractions announced Wednesday the showing of the new Pearl Harbor Exhibit with a special ceremony and also presented their new additions to the Ripley attractions. A new world record was also set at the event. Commissioner Kevin Triplett of the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development spoke and singer Con Hunley mesmerized the audience ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced the temporary closure of the Ramsey Cascades Trail due to a damaged foot log caused by a fallen tree that is blocking access along the route. The foot log spans a section of Ramsey Prong which is too swift and deep to allow hikers to safely rock-hop across river. The popular, four-mile trail ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s Inventory and Monitoring Branch has partnered with the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and the School of Arts at the University of Tennessee (UT), Knoxville, to create a new web application called Species Mapper. Everyone from park managers to school groups can use Species Mapper to explore suitable habitats for more than ...

Several Tennessee Army National Guard Soldiers from the 1-230th Assault Helicopter Battalion that is now part of Joint Base McGhee-Tyson in Knoxville, Tenn., were awarded the Sikorsky Rescue Award on July 10, for participating in three different lifesaving missions in Great Smoky Mountains National Park earlier this year. The award was established to salute the men and women who endanger ...

Friends of the Smokies has received a grant of $14,000 from REI in support of the Trails Forever program. The funds were made possible through REI’s Asheville and Knoxville locations as part of the 2016 REI Local Grant program, and will be used to continue to fund a full-time trail crew to reconstruct and rehabilitate Alum Cave Trail, one of ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park and Cumberland Gap National Historical Park rangers are leading a variety of summer programs for youth from the Knoxville’s Boys and Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley including Adventure Camps. Youth participating in the camps will spend three days in the Great Smoky Mountains and one day in Cumberland Gap learning about the unparalleled diversity ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in partnership with Americorps and FireWise, will host a Community Wildfire Preparedness meeting on Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 6 p.m. at the Oconaluftee Administrative Building adjacent to the Oconaluftee Visitor Center near Cherokee, N.C. Park Fire Information Officer Katie Corrigan will discuss wildland fire management practices and present an overview of recent wildfires in ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are pleased to announce that several of our dedicated Volunteers in Park (VIP) received regional and national recognition for their outstanding service. The Cades Cove Bike Patrol team and Robert E. (Bob) Lochbaum were selected for their exemplary service from over 240,000 volunteers across the nation that donate their time, skills, and talents to ...