Freezing temperatures leave behind a strange wonderland of ice and snow in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Click here to see the frozen beauty of the Smokies! Closed captioning is available for this video by clicking the caption button in the lower right-hand corner of the video controls.
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 [...]
Wow! The snow really started to pile up after 2:00 Friday afternoon! Watch the progression of snowfall in just over 2 hours at park headquarters at Sugarlands. Click here or on the photo to see the snow!
The Smokies awoke to a layer of snow last Saturday! Although we had seen our mountaintops get a nice dusting already, this was the first snow of the season for most parts of the park. Click here or on the photo to experience the beauty of first snowfall in Cades Cove. Closed captioning is [...]
Winter made a brief return this week in the Smokies. Click here to see the early spring snowfall that surprised us on April 7.
Ann Froschauer took these photos a couple of days ago — Gatlinburg in snow at the base of Mt. LeConte and a panorama of the Smokies in snow. Brrr….
Ann Froschauer likes to hike in the snow. Here’s how things looked a couple of days ago.