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Telethon Raises $210,000 For New Radio System At Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Friends of the Smokies collected $210,525 in donations during its 24th annual Friends Across the Mountains Telethon from hundreds of callers, online donations, and support from sponsors Dollywood, Mast General Store, Pilot Flying J, and SmartBank. The donations will support the organization’s 25th Anniversary Signature Project to upgrade Great Smoky Mountains National Park's emergency radio systems.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Clingmans Dome Tower Rehabilitation Work To Resume

Clingmans Dome Observation Tower in Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be closed Tuesday through July 27 so workers can complete a rehabilitation project that began last year. The remaining final surface overlay work was scheduled to be completed earlier this summer, but numerous rain events delayed the project.

Walking The Cades Cove Loop Without Vehicles At Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Sometimes, you just have to take advantage of the less hectic side of the national parks. Contributor Danny Bernstein did that recently when she left her car behind and took to walking the 11-mile loop around Cades Cove in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Volunteers Rehabilitate Palmer Barn At Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park recently received help to restore key elements of the historic Palmer Barn. Asheville building contractor Sean Perry and his crew partnered with the park and Friends of the Smokies to preserve the structural integrity of the barn and improve visitor safety through the renovation project in Cataloochee in the North Carolina section of the park.

Great Smoky Mountains Association Contributes More Than $2 Million To Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park may have experienced an eclipse in 2017, but the support the park received from one of its largest retail partners was anything but eclipsed, with more than $2 million contributed to a vast array of activities during the year by Great Smoky Mountains Association.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Celebrates 20 Years Of New Species Discoveries

It was not quite a decade ago that I traveled to Great Smoky Mountains National Park to better understand efforts there to track down every species that calls the park's rumpled landscape home. At the time the list of previously unknown species that were discovered had reached more than 900. Today that number has grown to nearly 1,000.

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