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Summer in the Mountains: A Photo Essay

It’s cooler up here. And spectacular both up close and far away. Our contributing photographers have the proof!

Spring Springs: A Photo Essay

And when it does, flora and fauna alike explode upon the lands, waters and air of the mountains.

Anne Davis: For the Park and for the People

This appreciation of Anne Davis’ work toward establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a chapter from Michael Aday’s “Letters from the Smokies,” published in 2023 by the Great Smoky Mountains Association.

Insider’s Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Our contributing editor, a chronic visitor to the park for five decades, offers her insights and tips for a celebration visit.

Shooting the Moon

No, it’s not the total solar eclipse coming to some parts of the country in April, but our determined writer/photographer is back with a magical look at a lunar eclipse in eastern Tennessee.

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Grassy Ridge, Roan Highlands, Tennessee/North Carolina. From the photographer: “Each year there’s a three- to four-day window when the delicate magenta blossoms of Catawba rhododendron paint the shrub-dominated ridgelines of Roan Mountain with vibrant color. It’s every photographer’s dream—certainly mine—to align this short bloom period with interesting atmospheric conditions. On this morning, everything came together. Following a three-mile, dark hike over open, grassy balds along the Appalachian Trail, I perched myself high atop a natural garden of flowering rhododendron. As the sun began to rise from the east, it seemed to pull an inverted cloud from the west ever so softly over Roan High Knob.”

Summer in the Mountains: A Photo Essay

It’s cooler up here. And spectacular both up close and far away. Our contributing photographers have the proof!
Foal along the Appalachian Trail in Virginia’s Grayson Highlands, with the note that hikers and other visitors are directed to limit interaction with the wild ponies to photographs only. From the photographer: “The wild ponies are one of the highlights along the Appalachian Trail in this region and for the park. The ponies are the descendants of 50 Assateague ponies released in 1974 and are small in stature. This young foal is incredibly small standing just a few feet high.”

Spring Springs: A Photo Essay

And when it does, flora and fauna alike explode upon the lands, waters and air of the mountains.
Gov. Austin Peay signed the legislation authorizing the purchase of Little River Company land. Left to right: Jeff Hunt, acting secretary to the governor; Speaker of the Senate Judge L. D. Hill; Representative Anne Davis; Gov. Peay; Mary Virginia Cox of the governor’s office; Representative W. B. Hatcher; and Speaker of the House W. F. Barry, Jr.

Anne Davis: For the Park and for the People

This appreciation of Anne Davis’ work toward establishment of Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a chapter from Michael Aday’s “Letters from the Smokies,” published in 2023 by the Great Smoky Mountains Association.
Ben Morton Overlook is the best spot for perfect sunsets.

Insider’s Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Our contributing editor, a chronic visitor to the park for five decades, offers her insights and tips for a celebration visit.
The total eclipsed moon sets behind the Holston Mountain fire tower in Carter County.

Shooting the Moon

No, it’s not the total solar eclipse coming to some parts of the country in April, but our determined writer/photographer is back with a magical look at a lunar eclipse in eastern Tennessee.
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