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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular national park in the United States, with almost ten million visitors a year. The park was established in 1934 to protect the last remnant of the southern Appalachian forest, which once covered more than four million acres but was virtually eliminated by logging and fire.

It has been designated a Biosphere Reserve, a World Heritage Site, and is one of the largest protected areas in the eastern United States, covering an area of more than 800 square miles in two states — North Carolina and Tennessee. 

The name "Smoky" comes from the bluish mist, which envelops the mountains and fills the valleys, giving the Park its distinct feature. The Park is renowned for the diversity of its plant and animal resources, which includes 1,400 flowering plants, 200 bird species, and 50 kinds of mammals.

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Three visitor centers —

Sugarlands Visitor Center, near Gatlinburg, TN, which is open year-round and offers an orientation program and natural history exhibits.

  • Oconaluftee Visitor Center, near Cherokee, NC, which is also open year-round and its exhibits focus on mountain life of the late 1800s.
  • Cades Cove Visitor Center, near Townsend, TN, (closed in winter), sits among preserved historic buildings representing isolated farming communities of the 1800s.
  • Sugarlands and Oconaluftee are connected by the Newfound Gap Road, a scenic drive across the Smokies that connects Cherokee, NC and Gatlinburg, TN. The drive includes numerous scenic pullouts with mountain views and a variety of forest types as you ascend approximately 3,000 feet up the spine of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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