The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, in North Carolina and Tennessee contains about 75% of all southern spruce-fir ecosystems.
The National Heritage Area includes the North Carolina portions of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway.
His second book, Another Country, is perhaps his most complex, interweaving historical accounts of the southern Appalachians, reflections on the Cherokee language and its relationship to the landscape, and an account of efforts to reintroduce the endangered red wolf into Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Since part of the road is also the southwestern border of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, there is no development along the 11-mile stretch, resulting in no danger of vehicles pulling out in front of those in the right of way.
The Spring Wild Flower Pilmgrage is a week long event held in Great Smoky Mountains National Park annually in late April.
It was also a site for filming of parts of Disney's hit 1950s TV series, Davy Crockett, King of the Wild Frontier.
While serving as honorary ambassador of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in 2009, Parton wrote eight pieces of music for a new stage show at Dollywood.
The wolves were reintroduced to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in the early 90s but the program was cancelled in 1998 due to the death of wolf pups from malnutrition and disease; and the wolves roaming beyond the boundaries of the park.
There are several disjunct populations, including one in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Rocky Mountains in Colorado and a coastal bog in central Oregon.
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Fontana Lake, an impoundment of the Little Tennessee River, forms most of the northern border of the county, with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the other side of the lake.
David C. Chapman (1876–1944), led initiative to create the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Happy Valley, Blount County, Tennessee, unincorporated community near the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, associated with ZIP code 37878
Great Smokies Wildflower Pilgrimage, a week-long event held annually in April in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park