UPDATE: Rangers and the Tennessee Highway Patrol’s Knoxville Strike Team carried the hiker with a broken leg down from Mount LeConte on May 9, a Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokesperson ...

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials announced Friday that the Cosby Area of the park has reopened to visitors after the completion of some infrastructure work.

A Tennessee rescue team is en route to help a hiker who broke their leg in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The hiker broke their leg in the backcountry of the national park, about 13 miles in ...

A hiker with a broken leg was forced to wait until the next day for rescue due to treacherous weather in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials say. The accident happened Thursday ...

Tennessee Highway Patrol photo A hiker with a broken leg was forced to wait until the next day for rescue due to treacherous weather in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, officials say.

GATLINBURG, Tenn. (WATE) — A woman has been rescued after breaking their leg while hiking near the Alum Cave trailhead in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Around 8:15 a.m. Friday ...

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 ...

If you haven't been to The Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP), you ... particularly in Cades Cove and along the nearby Blue Ridge Parkway, so consider this when organizing your stay.

Gatlinburg is close to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for which the black bear is an iconic symbol: it is a protected bear habitat in the United States, and biologists estimate around ...