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Great Smoky Mountains National Park – Re-construction to Begin March 1 on Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) (U.S. National Park Service)

Tennessee

Date: February 18, 2011 Contact: Bob Miller, (865) 436-1207 Motorists traveling across Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Newfound Gap Road (U.S. 441) can expect to experience delays beginning March 1, 2011 when work begins to rehabilitate 2.4 miles of the road from the North Carolina state line at Newfound Gap northward into Tennessee. The work will be performed by

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park hikers rescued from snowy backcountry | citizen-times.com | Asheville Citizen-Times

Tennessee

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK — Two hikers from Louisiana spent a scary night in waist-deep snow in the national park before making it to safety, a rescue official said Thursday. Emergency dispatchers took a 911 call from the hikers at 10:30 a.m. Monday, said Greg Shuping, emergency operations chief in Haywood County. The backpackers were at the Laurel Gap

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Tennessee News Briefs…

Tennessee

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN & NC Although Great Smoky Mountains National Park sees more visitors year-round than any other park, winter is its lightest tourist time. Besides being especially accessible to East Coasters, the North Carolina-Tennessee scenery is pretty overwhelming—even when under a sheath of downy white. Half the winter days have highs in the 50s, and snowfalls

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