TOWNSEND, Tenn. — Visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park have a new place they can go to rest and learn more about the area's nature, animals and history. The Great Smoky Mountains ...

Soaking rain has helped knock down the Rich Mountain wildfire inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The fire was contained to 6 acres after high winds overnight led to evacuations just ...

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. (WATE) — Amid high winds and burn bans throughout the region on Monday, firefighters are responding to a report of a brush fire in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Nathan Waters ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (WATE) — The National Park Service is searching for those responsible for starting the Rich Mountain Fire in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The NPS is asking for the public’s ...

The park said US 411, also known as Newfound Gap Road, closed at 4 p.m. and the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail would at 6 ...

On a piece of rocky ground at the base of a steep bank along the mist-shrouded Little River, oil painter Olena Babak sets up ...

TOWNSEND, Tenn. — People in Townsend may spot some bright, floating balloons floating through the sky on Saturday. It's part of the Great Smoky Mountains Hot Air Balloon Festival. Some of the proceeds ...

The seventh Smoky Mountain Hot Air Balloon Festival took place Saturday afternoon at the Townsend Visitors Center. Giant colorful hot air balloons took to the sky as food and craft vendors lined the ...

Perhaps they were drawn by the calling contest echoing through the foothills, or maybe it was curiosity for their wood-carved lookalikes, but the eponymous cryptid of Saturday’s festival did in fact ...

Park rangers in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park are searching for a missing man whose car was found in the park on April 8. Jacob Riggs, 35, was last seen in Maynardville, Tennessee, on April ...