KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — In response to social unrest across the country last year, Great Smoky Mountains National Park Superintendent Cassius Cash initiated the Smokies Hikes for Healing program to ...

Just four rangers bear the responsibility of patrolling 850 miles of hiking trails and monitoring more than 100 backcountry ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — One hundred years of hiking, education, volunteering and conservation in the Great Smoky Mountains started on an October day in 1924. Twenty hikers from the ...

SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. (WATE) — Two experienced hikers are taking on the Tour De Smokies challenge. Their 900-mile hike begins Friday at midnight. Nancy East and Chris Ford are embarking on this journey ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — In the latest edition of WATE’s Smoky Mountain Minute, experts with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park spoke about trail-thru hikers along the Appalachian Trail.

Earlier this week, he got his pin for hiking 50 miles in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. A local group called Hike the Smokies presented Major and his owner with the pin. He finished his last ...

America’s national parks are the beating heart of outdoor adventure, vast landscapes where every turn feels like a postcard ...

June is traditionally the most challenging month for managing human-bear conflicts in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. By mid-month this year, the park had already closed several campsites where ...

Cindy McJunkin, a veteran hike leader with Carolina Mountain Club and Smoky Mountain Hiking Club, said being unprepared, for mountain weather and terrain, is what she sees as the biggest source of ...

ASHEVILLE, N.C. – Missing hiker Mitzie Sue “Susan” Clements was found in Great Smoky Mountains National Park after a week of massive searching in terrain so rugged and thick with vegetation a ...