If you're hiking in the Smokies this season, keep an eye (and an ear) out for snakes, particularly these venomous ones.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park will host its annual synchronous firefly viewing opportunity at Elkmont from May 29-June ...

Dates to view the synchronous fireflies show in Great Smoky Mountains National Park have been announced. Here’s how to try to ...

The National Park Service will start taking applications May 2 to enter the lottery for a pass to see synchronous fireflies' mating display.

The highly competitive lottery for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park's annual synchronous firefly viewing event will ...

The Great Smoky Mountains' synchronous fireflies event offers limited viewing through a lottery system opening on May 2, with ...

Kelsea Ballerini and Noah Kahn were spotted riding the Smoky Mountain River Rampage. Watch their big splash at Dollywood.

Jim and Leslie Costa will create an insect field guide during their time with Steve Kemp Writers Residency in Great Smoky ...

Each year, the park hosts an event at Elkmont featuring thousands of Photinus carolinus, a firefly species known for its ...

While construction of the Panther Pit is ongoing, Franklin football will hold four 2025 home games at Western Carolina and ...

A multiyear rehabilitation project will close Bullhead Trail on certain days until the fall. Here's when you can and can't hike the trail starting May 5.

The region has so much to offer: The natural beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, an array of waterfalls to visit and outstanding biodiversity. As residents and visitors enjoy the ...