Meet some of the members of the park’s Nordic Ski Patrol, a volunteer group that serves as a contact point for visitors using Clingmans Dome Road during winter. Among their many responsibilities are reporting weather conditions, providing cold weather emergency medical services, and assisting with search and rescue. Click here or on the photo [...]
December 3 is a special day at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s the day that Wannetta Johnson brings a poinsettia to Park Headquarters. Click here or on the photo to find out why she has made this special trip every year for the past 35 years. Closed captioning is available for this video [...]
Eighty years after its completion, Horace Kephart’s previously unpublished novel, Smoky Mountain Magic, has been released by Great Smoky Mountains Association. Click here or on the photo to hear the journey of the novel with Libby Kephart Hargrave, the author’s great-granddaughter. Closed captioning is available for this video by clicking the caption button in [...]
Employees and alumni of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and its partners express the deep connections that inspire their daily efforts to protect, preserve and support our park. Visitors offer special sentiments of what the park means to them. This video is presented in two parts: Part 1 and Part 2.
Here’s a wonderful video about local weaver Hope Reagan. It shows her weaving limited edition placemats and tablerunners to celebrate the park’s 75th anniversary. Click on the photo to see the short film.
Here’s a fascinating look at David Ogle making brooms. He does it the way his grandfather showed him. It’s his way of celebrating the park’s 75th anniversary. You’ll love this peek inside his studio. Click on the picture below to watch the short film.
Will Blozan has hiked thousands of miles through Great Smoky Mountains National Park and climbed hundreds of feet into the tops of the park’s tallest hemlocks. As part of a very special hike hosted during the Wildflower Pilgrimage earlier this March, a group of us were able to follow this intrepid tree climber into the [...]
Dr. Wayne Van Devender is my current front-runner for “Most Unusual and Awesome Talent.” He’s a biology professor at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina where he enjoys having intellectual discussions with both students and the frogs in the local ponds. Yes, the frogs. Click the photo to watch the video starring Wayne Van [...]