Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shadows and seasons are the main markers of time in Cataloochee Valley, a remote corner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park ...

This is primetime for elk in the Cataloochee Valley of the Great Smoky Mountains Natural Park, the best time to view the massive creatures and one of the best times all year to explore the wonderful ...

“You know how many photos I took?” he asked. We were headed back to Hendersonville from the eastern end of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where we spent an afternoon reporting on elk in the ...

Great Smoky Mountains Natl. Park — The National Park Service will be reopening some roads, trails and facilities in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park that have been closed for more than half a ...

FILLING GAPS: A National Park Service employee approaches a washout that narrowly missed a historic building in Cataloochee Valley. Photo courtesy of the National Park Service On the second Sunday of ...

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK (WATE) — The National Park Service plans to reopen parts of Cataloochee Valley in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Friday. “Within the park, Cataloochee ...

We can't get enough of the Smokies, but we've been to Pigeon Forge one too many times (no offense, Dolly Parton). Fortunately, there are always new ways to experience the country's most visited ...

"I know that developers are trying to give a dream to the people who are buying expensive homes on the mountain slopes," says Beth Woody, Brittain Cove resident and Cataloochee descendant, "but the ...

If you want to check out one of the less-crowded sites in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, go this weekend. It will be the last time to drive into the Cataloochee Valley until spring. The North ...

PICTURE DAY: Students pose outside the Beech Grove School in 1918. The structure, built in 1901, operated until the 1950s. It still stands to this day. Photo courtesy of the Great Smoky Mountains ...