While other national parks are closed as the government shutdown drags on, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is open - at ...

Campfires were ablaze Friday morning, Oct. 13, at Little Arrow Outdoor Resort, the last campground in Townsend before the entrance of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A family pulled its vehicle ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. — Fans of Cades Cove in the Smokies can drive to the popular site in the national park one day earlier than expected. Laurel Creek Road will reopen to traffic by 7 a.m. Saturday, ...

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park will soon begin a paving project at Townsend and Cades Cove that will last through all of spring. The park said it will begin the project on the week of March ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. (WVLT) - News this week that the Great Smoky Mountains National Park won’t start Vehicle-Free Wednesdays in May this year isn’t settling well with many in Townsend. “You know, it’s a ...

The destination is one of the most popular locations in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and it's reopened thanks to ...

The National Park Service announced that the Townsend entrance to Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park reopened for visitors Thursday. Both the Cades Cove and Oconoluftee visitor ...

Wildfires raging in East Tennessee forced emergency voluntary evacuations overnight in Blount County. The Townsend Area Volunteer Fire Department announced emergency evacuations of homes along Old ...

Townsend, Tenn., sits in the Tuckaleechee Cove amid the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains with high ridges all around and the Little River flowing gracefully alongside its primary roadway, U.S.