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The 7 most underrated mountain trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park brimming with natural beauty

Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the busiest, but we tracked down 7 secret-ish trails full of everything from ...
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Forget Great Smoky Mountains National Park, visit this old-growth forest for scenic hiking and fewer crowds

In the forest-covered and mountainous corner of western North Carolina, bordering Tennessee, lie two of the top three most visited sites in the entire National Park Service system: Great Smoky ...
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This Is the Most Crowded National Park in the Country. You Should Still Go.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) had more than 12 million visitors in 2024, or about 34,000 guests every day. That makes the 522,427-acre swath of mountains, streams, and historic farmland ...
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park to expand by over 600 acres

The country’s most visited national park will be getting a little bigger thanks to what would be the largest land addition to the park since 2009.

In the Smoky Mountains, a volunteer effort aims to document every species — before it’s too late

For citizen scientists, counting lichens and bugs and other tiny species is one way to monitor climate change in America's ...