Even the mountains couldn’t escape the historic severe weather that occurred during the “Super Outbreak” of late April. The park has had to close several trails and portions of trails on the west end of the park during clean-up. To see some of the damage on the closed trails and the path of destruction from [...]
Earlier this year, I put together a video for the park’s Hike the Smokies Challenge. It’s a neat program the encourages people to get out and hike and record their mileage. You can get a cool pin for hiking 100, 250 and 500 miles! Check out the video to learn important information about being [...]
If you’ve seen Cataract or Laurel Falls on an average Summer day, you won’t believe how they looked after the heavy downpour we had last Friday! Click here or on the photo to view the video. Closed captioning is available for this video by clicking the caption button in the lower right-hand corner of [...]