New Study Highlights Challenges Facing the Appalachian National Scenic Trail

Adjacent land development, air pollution, and funding shortfalls puts experience of visitors and trail resources at risk [...]

Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Road and Facility Improvements (U.S. National Park Service) | Tennessee Mountain Dreams

In spring and early summer of 2010 over $44,000,000 worth of improvements will be made to park roads and facilities. Funding for the projects has become available from a combination of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act along with previously-authorized Federal Lands Highway Program funds, partner construction monies, and annual cyclic and repair/rehabilitation funds.

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Smokies Announces Schedule of Cades Cove Loop Road Reconstruction | Tennessee Mountain Dreams

Great Smoky Mountains National Park managers have announced plans to rehabilitate the 11-mile Cades Cove Loop Road in the spring of 2010. Due to the limitations on work processes posed by the narrow, single lane historic road the Park plans to close the road to all use from March 1 through May 21, 2010. The [...]