Mt. LeConte Lookout in The Great Smoky Mountains

08/15/2022

📣GSMNP Announces 2023 fee program changes 📣

"Great Smoky Mountains National Park leadership announced the decision to adopt the Park it Forward parking tag program and to increase camping fees beginning next year. Parking tags will be required to be displayed on any motor vehicle parked within the park boundary beginning March 1, 2023. Approved parking rates are $5 for a daily parking tag, $15 for a parking tag for up to seven days, and $40 for an annual parking tag."

"Use of all park roads will remain toll free. Parking tags will not be required for motorists who pass through the area or who park vehicles for less than fifteen minutes. The tags will not guarantee a parking spot at a specific location. Parking will continue to be available on a first-come, first-serve basis throughout the park."

Link to operation details, where to purchase parking tags, and camping rates:
https://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/2023-fees.htm.

07/16/2022

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You think filling your car is expensive. I just filled my fryers with clean oil $40.00 .Just something to think about several restaurants have announced closing dates in our county this week .Two are locally owned and operated by families.Please support small business we need you and we try to provide good service at a reasonable price.

07/04/2022

Happy 4th of July!! Please be safe while celebrating our nation's

06/23/2022

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06/15/2022

🎂HAPPY BIRTHDAY GSMNP!🎂

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06/14/2022

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Who's coming to the 10th Anniversary of the Great Smoky Mountain Jeep Invasion®?
August 25-27, 2022 at LeConte Center in Pigeon Forge.

More vendors than ever before. Everybody's welcome. Over two hundred vendors including experts who can answer every question you have about everything Jeep related. For all the info online go to gsmji.com

06/07/2022

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Did you know Tennessee is home to 2 species of snapping turtles? Do you know the difference between the alligator snapping turtle and the common snapping turtle?

TWRA is currently conducting alligator snapping turtle research and is especially interested in alligator snapping turtle observations. A photograph is preferable, but please contact Rob Colvin at 731-423-5725 with any observations in Tennessee. Here is a quick guide to identifying your snapping turtle.

To learn more about turtles in Tennessee, visit https://www.tn.gov/twra/wildlife/reptiles/turtle.html

06/07/2022

A fed bear is a dead bear:

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A FED BEAR IS A DEAD BEAR!
Never feed roadside, park, or neighborhood bears! You may think it will encourage them to appreciate you or other humans...but bears don’t see it that way.

A fed bear learns to overcome its instinctive fear of humans. In essence, feeding bears “rewards” bears for approaching people in the same way a treat rewards a dog for coming on command.

Feeding bears includes “unintentional” feeding such as allowing bears to get into bird feeders, barbecue grills, and pet food.

Feeding bears is a sure way to get them killed. Recent studies show that bears that have to be relocated due to nuisance behavior are dead within one year. So please, please, please...DON'T FEED THE BEARS!