The park is a busy place in the summer. Life abounds and park visitation soars. Native shrubs and wildflowers make a beautiful show. Waterfalls and streams cool the warm summer air. Enjoy the start of summer with this scenic trip to Cataloochee and the music of Bill Mize. Click here to watch!
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Experience a year’s worth of Smokies moments in this short film. Take a look back to the many places 2009 has taken our video blog. Click here or on the photo to see it all.
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Elk like to have fun in the park, too! These fine fellows were seen frolicking near Oconaluftee Visitor Center recently. Click here or on the photo and see if you can find the two elk in the background trying to steal the scene.
Images of the season, from elk to mountains painted in fall color! Click here or on the photo to view the video.
Elk bulls are bugling, fighting, and finding every way they can to display dominance during the breeding season that is happening right now. Click here or on the photo to get a sneak peak of elk activity in Cataloochee.
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park Volunteers-in-Parks program is currently enlisting volunteers to assist with the experimental elk reintroduction project in Cataloochee Valley, N.C.
The “Elk Bugle Corps” program was created in 2007 to assist rangers with providing visitor information on responsible elk viewing practices and elk behavior and to help with parking and traffic [...]
“How old does a deer have to get before it turns into an elk?”
Last week GSMA employee, Melinda Powell, was able to clarify this issue for a visitor to the Smoky Mountains (Sevierville Chamber of Commerce) Visitor Center on Highway 66.
Melinda admitted that she considered telling the visitor that a deer turned into an elk [...]
This gorgeous fellow posed for Donna Eaton in Cataloochee last weekend.