Great Smoky Mountains National Park News

A novel set in the Great Smoky Mountains that was written 80 years ago by Horace Kephart has finally been published.

National Park Service officials say they tracked down a suspected poacher accused of killing an elk in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Don Rose, a Cherokee-born Air Force major and technology maker, has written a novel about one of the most colorful characters in our history: Quill Rose, Don's great-great-uncle. Rose is the moonshiner whom Horace Kephart featured in his 1913 classic "Our Southern Highlanders." In Don's novel, we first burst in on a Cades Cove cabin scene, 1841, ...

From yoursmokies.com/blogspot: This Friday, Nov. 13, bull elk #21 was shot and killed in the Cataloochee section of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park near Maggie Valley, N.C.. A Granville county man has confessed.

The Knoxville Museum of Art just announced the acquisition of a print of "Dawn, Autumn Forest, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee," one of only four published photos from Ansel Adams' trip to the Great Smoky Mountains in 1948.

Rangers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park say they expect to charge a Granville County man with the illegal shooting of an elk.

Federal authorities are bringing charges against a North Carolina man in connection with the shooting of one of Great Smoky Mountains National Park's bull elk, an animal that was one of the largest bulls in the herd.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park rangers said Monday they planned to issue charges in what would be the park's first case of elk poaching.

Charges are pending against a Granville County mansuspected of shooting a bull elk inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park, according to a press release from the park.

From now until the first ice storm in mid-January is our favorite time of the year.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park officials are investigating the attempted taking of an elk's carcass today in the Cataloochee Valley.

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Rangers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park found three lost hikers. A news release from the National Park Service on Tuesday said the hikers from Knoxville were all in good condition when rangers located them Monday evening in the Abrams Fall area of Cades Cove.

From Staff Reports Originally published: November 10. 2009 3:01AM Last modified: November 09.

Nature is unpredictable, but Richard Mack's photographs give the impression the Evanston photographer knows what to expect in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The nation's most popular park isn't too popular with National Geographic Traveler magazine.

The Great Smoky Mountains aren't so great after all, according to National Geographic Traveler magazine.

U.S. Senator Lamar Alexander announced that the conference report to the Interior appropriations bill he co-authored and that passed the Senate today will fund a number of conservation efforts across Tennessee, including increased funding for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and other national parks, the Land and Water Conservation Fund, and ...

Fire managers at Great Smoky Mountains National Park plan to conduct a series of controlled burns of fields in Cades Cove on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, if weather conditions permit.

Several controlled fires are planned this week for about 450 acres in scenic Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.