GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK (WATE) — The numbers continue to stack up at East Tennessee’s national park. While the year isn’t yet over, a new record has already been set for the number of ...

After the Great Smoky Mountains National Park shattered its attendance record in 2021, visitation to the country’s busiest national park dropped in 2022. The park had a total of 12,937,633 visitors in ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — Just more than 12 million visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park last year spent $1 billion in communities near the park, according a new National Park Service ...

In the spring of 2019, Latria (pronounced La-tray-a) Graham was chosen to be one of the first Steve Kemp writers-in-residence, spending six weeks learning and writing in Great Smoky Mountains National ...

The Tennessee Smokies open the 2021 season on Tuesday night after a year in which minor league baseball did not play due to COVID-19. The Smokies are the Class AA affiliate of the Chicago Cubs and ...

Double-A Tennessee announced their schedule for the upcoming season, which features 60 games inside Smokies Stadium, the first of which is on May 4 against the Montgomery Biscuits to begin the ...

Note: A new Word from the Smokies column will be available next week. Until then, enjoy this column originally published April 13, 2020. “Mountains! Think of them; speak of them; look upon them! ...

Note: The NC DOT announced it was building a bridge on Interstate 40 in the Pigeon River area of Haywood County that would allow safe passage of wildlife underneath it. This is a passion topic for ...