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Laurel Falls Trail Rehabilitation
The National Park Service (NPS) will begin a major rehabilitation on Laurel Falls Trail, one of the most popular trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The trail will close for 18 months starting Jan. 6, 2025, as crews make improvements to the trail and parking areas.
Through this rehabilitation, the NPS will enhance safety and the hiking experience for the more than 300,000 visitors who hike Laurel Falls every year. The park will construct new viewing platforms at the falls to improve visitor flow and reduce hazards associated with the slippery and steep area surrounding the falls. The park will also repave and widen the asphalt trail. The existing asphalt surface of the trail, first paved in 1963, is rough, uneven and includes sections with cracked and missing pavement, requiring frequent repairs. In addition, the park will install new signs and educational panels to provide guidance on wayfinding, bear safety and Leave No Trace principles.
The project will also provide critical upgrades to the trailhead parking area. These include the addition of roughly 50 parking spaces and the construction of a designated pathway with a guardrail to safely connect pedestrians to the trailhead. Improvements to the parking area are funded by recreation fee revenue from campgrounds and parking tag fees.
During the closure of Laurel Falls Trail, access to Laurel Falls will be closed from both Little River Road and the junction of Little Greenbrier Trail and Cove Mountain Trail. Furthermore, Sugarland Mountain Trail and its parking lot will also be closed, with no drop-offs or use permitted.
During this construction, park staff encourage visitors to explore the park’s extensive network of over 800 miles of trails and recommend alternative hikes offering similar experiences to Laurel Falls. Consider these alternatives:
Baskins Creek Trail.
Cove Hardwood Nature Trail.
Cove Mountain Trail to Cataract Falls.
Elkmont, Cosby or Smokemont Nature Trails.
Gabes Mountain Trail to Hen Wallow Falls.
Metcalf Bottoms Trail/Brier Gap Trail to Little Greenbrier School and the Walker Sisters’ Cabin.
Little River Trail.
Middle Prong Trail.
Sugarland Valley Nature Trail.
Through this rehabilitation, the NPS will enhance safety and the hiking experience for the more than 300,000 visitors who hike Laurel Falls every year. The park will construct new viewing platforms at the falls to improve visitor flow and reduce hazards associated with the slippery and steep area surrounding the falls. The park will also repave and widen the asphalt trail. The existing asphalt surface of the trail, first paved in 1963, is rough, uneven and includes sections with cracked and missing pavement, requiring frequent repairs. In addition, the park will install new signs and educational panels to provide guidance on wayfinding, bear safety and Leave No Trace principles.
The project will also provide critical upgrades to the trailhead parking area. These include the addition of roughly 50 parking spaces and the construction of a designated pathway with a guardrail to safely connect pedestrians to the trailhead. Improvements to the parking area are funded by recreation fee revenue from campgrounds and parking tag fees.
During the closure of Laurel Falls Trail, access to Laurel Falls will be closed from both Little River Road and the junction of Little Greenbrier Trail and Cove Mountain Trail. Furthermore, Sugarland Mountain Trail and its parking lot will also be closed, with no drop-offs or use permitted.
During this construction, park staff encourage visitors to explore the park’s extensive network of over 800 miles of trails and recommend alternative hikes offering similar experiences to Laurel Falls. Consider these alternatives:
Baskins Creek Trail.
Cove Hardwood Nature Trail.
Cove Mountain Trail to Cataract Falls.
Elkmont, Cosby or Smokemont Nature Trails.
Gabes Mountain Trail to Hen Wallow Falls.
Metcalf Bottoms Trail/Brier Gap Trail to Little Greenbrier School and the Walker Sisters’ Cabin.
Little River Trail.
Middle Prong Trail.
Sugarland Valley Nature Trail.
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2024 Bryson City Christmas Parade
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The 50th annual Bryson City / Swain County, NC Christmas Parade.
National Park completes three year restoration of Ramsey Cascades Trail
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park completes three-year restoration of Ramsey Cascades Trail Trail now open to visitors seven days a week In collaboration with Friends of the Smokies, the National Park Service (NPS) has a completed a three-year restoration of the Ramsey Cascades Trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Located in the Greenbrier area, this popular trail ascends through bea...
Kuwohi. Clingmans Dome name change
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The U.S. Board of Geographic Names voted in favor of the formal request submitted by the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians to change the name of Clingmans Dome to Kuwohi. Kuwohi, is the Cherokee name for the mountain and translates to “mulberry place.” The National Park Service strongly supported the name restoration and applauds today's decision, which also received support from local communit...
North Carolina's first legal recreational marijuana
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The first legal recreational marijuana sales in North Carolina will begin on September 7th, 2024. The sales will take place on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, also known as the Qualla Boundary, and will be open to all adults aged 21 and above. The Cherokee Indian Reservation, as a sovereign nation, has the authority to establish its own laws and regulations. The Great Smoky Cannabis Co., opera...
Kayaker brings Olympic bronze to the Great Smoky Mountains
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Hello and welcome to Bryson City, NC. Today the town is hosting a celebration for 20-year-old Olympic athlete Evy Leibfarth who won a bronze medal in the women's C-1·Canoe Slalom competition at the 33rd Olympiad in Paris, France. Evy got involved in Kayaking at an early age and with the coaching of her father she grew up training on the Nantahala River. Throughout her young career, she has comp...
Celebrating Cosby
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"Celebrating Cosby" community programs return to Great Smoky Mountains National Park GATLINBURG, Tenn.-The National Park Service invites the public to attend "Celebrating Cosby: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow" community programs every Friday from June 21-July 19 at the Cosby Campground Amphitheater. The programs honor the rich cultural and natural history of the Cosby area through storytelling, ...
Asheville Junction
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Asheville Junction is a bluegrass/Americana band from Asheville, North Carolina Playing at the Swain County Heritage Festival in Bryson City, North Carolina they gave a very entertaining performance with songs that included Red Clay Halo, Blue Moon of Kentucky, Roly Poly, 7 Lonely Days and Washington County. ashevillejunctionband.com/
Greening Up The Mountains 2024
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Join Dave Mann for the 26th annual Greening Up The Mountains. An Earth Day heritage arts festival in Sylva, NC. www.mainstreetsylva.org/greening-up-the-mountains/
NPS to implement weekday closures of Ramsey Cascades Trail
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Starting April 15, the National Park Service (NPS) will close Ramsey Cascades Trail on weekdays while trail crews finish the full-scale rehabilitation work started in 2022. The rehabilitation of this iconic Smokies trail is part of the Trails Forever program supported by Friends of the Smokies. The trail will be closed Monday through Thursday each week, except federal holidays. The weekday clos...
More than $10 million in improvements coming soon to Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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'Park it Forward' and camping fees will support increased ranger presence, improved visitor experience and more In the first year since Great Smoky Mountains National Park launched the Park it Forward program, the park generated over $10 million in recreation fee revenue, which includes parking tag sales and camping fees. The park is using this money to improve visitor safety, increase park ran...
Appalachian Rivers Aquarium
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Learn about the different kinds of aquatic life that live in the waterways of the Smoky Mountains. And visit the Appalachian Rivers Aquarium.
A Road To Nowhere
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On today's show, I talk about Swain County, NC controversial North Shore Road agreement and a road that goes nowhere. www.greatsmokies.com/road-nowhere/ th-cam.com/video/j66rA56TqJA/w-d-xo.html Rockytop by Audionautix is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Artist: audionautix.com/
Mountain Life Festival returns to Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Following a three-year absence, Great Smoky Mountains National Park will again host its popular Mountain Life Festival at the Mountain Farm Museum on Saturday, September 23 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event preserves the legacy of the diverse Appalachian customs practiced for generations by the many families who lived on lands that later became Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The day's acti...
Reconstruct Lakeview Drive and repair Heintooga Ridge Road
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Reconstruct Lakeview Drive and repair Heintooga Ridge Road
Walker Sisters Cabin renovations complete
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Walker Sisters Cabin renovations complete
Park rangers searching for missing man near Deep Creek
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Park rangers searching for missing man near Deep Creek
Second busiest year ever recorded at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Second busiest year ever recorded at Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Early sales of ‘Park it Forward’ annual parking tags
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Early sales of ‘Park it Forward’ annual parking tags
Park takes steps to increase parking safety near busy trailheads
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Park takes steps to increase parking safety near busy trailheads
47th Annual Bryson City Christmas Parade
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47th Annual Bryson City Christmas Parade
Repair work begins on bridges across Great Smoky Mountains
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Repair work begins on bridges across Great Smoky Mountains
Park reopens Look Rock Campground after nine year closure
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Park reopens Look Rock Campground after nine year closure
Eyewitness to Ghost Lights of the Smoky Mountains
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Eyewitness to Ghost Lights of the Smoky Mountains
Thanks for the shoot of the dam. I wish you would’ve shown the tops of the spillways. Do you know if they still take tours inside the dam tunnel?
Went to Fontana village many times on vacation. Great place until peppertree took it over. Stopped going and started camping in nearby Almond NC.
What happened 83 years ago should not be judged by todays standards and what we know now about the outcome of World War II !!!! I am no fan of the federal government, but our country was under attack, and "The Greatest Generation" was trying to save the U S for the next generations!!!!!
Why would anybody believe that the government would actually stick to their promises? Look what they did to the first nations people.🤨😡
Been there, thanks for the memories!
Wasted TAX DOLLARS
Is it still there now after huricane Helene?
fascinating
That tunnel is ancient. Not built in the 1800s. Other than that - this is a typical abuse of power by the government. Any government. Using the war as a pretext to do whatever they had in mind. I wonder what old world landmark was there, that they absolutely had to flood the area.
Jim said he walked thru it, so it goes somewhere!
I've been to that tunnel. Walked through it and stepped in horse poop because it's dark. Would have been nice to have a second road back into Tennessee.
Good luck stepping in Horse Cookie piles😊🐴🐴
I've probably been to Clingman's Dome close to 100 times over the years. I've never once seen a group of Indians conducting any kind of ceremony on their "sacred mountain". But I've seen thousands of pale faces appreciating the nature in this place and also supporting it with their tax dollars. Since tribes are exempt from Federal Income Taxes, perhaps they should pony up some of that casino money to help pay the bill to support their sacred place. P.S. - An inconvenient truth - The eastern band Cherokee fought for the Confederacy.
CLINGMANS DOME FOREVER…!!!!!! Get your CLINGMANS DOME FOREVER APPAREL COMING SOON! Possibly this Christmas maybe even a 50% off sale!!!
Keep on burning our tax dollars on completely unnecessary bullcrap you greedy satanic pieces of sh*ts…!!!!!!!!! IT WILL STILL BE CALLED CLINGMANS DOME, FOREVER EVEN IF I HAVE TO DRIVE MY VAN BACK UP THERE AND PLASTER THE ABSOLUTE CRAP OUT OF EVERY SIGN TREE AND THE DOME ITSELF SAYING “CLINGMANS DOME…!!” Screw off you fake news reporter!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very interesting. Thank you. 👍👍👍
Please please, someone teach this man how to pronounce "Appalachian."
Legalize cannabis 21+ ONLY in all 50 states. Tax and regulate cannabis like tobacco.
I'm still clinging here on Clingmans Dome 🤣
I think mountains should have their own names, and not just the name of whoever put them on a map.
❤❤❤❤ awesome 😎
This is great. Now the dumb and lazy will be even dumber and lazier.
Now the government will hold the rest of the citizens of NC hostage, just as it has the Native Americans since taking their lands hundreds of years ago! God bless the Cherokee Nation!
How can companies test you for something that you can legally purchase now… It makes absolutely no sense
Do you have to live there to buy? And can anyone 21+ go buy or do you need medical Marijuana card
@@troonlegend8317 I'm trying to find out the same thing I'm In Atlanta
Anyone 21+, started sep 7th.👍🙏
Listen to the video
Grow my own 🤠
@@TDFBlindnope only Indians
Asking for a friend wondering if they got some good wax nothing like a good road trip gasing up now Gps says 420 😂 😂
It's only for Indians
I'm not Indian are you 😂 😂 maybe you can grab me some wax
@@David-x5p no I'm not sorry I still get mine the old way 🤣🤣
@@dozersdady I'm just joking. Me too Atlanta keeps good gas plus wax much respect to you 💪 💪
@@David-x5p i got family that owns a company in another state I stay stocked 🤣🤣 they ain't stopping shit.
Cannabis should never have been illegal in the first place.
@@KP-ne1cg really why you even care to write this why not just go on with your life shit I'm smoking a fatty now kush life
@@David-x5ppeople are IN JAIL
@@davidgough3512 your point
@@David-x5p lol you poor little thing 😘😂
@@David-x5p I guess you’re the idiot that the media keeps trying to portray who a cannabis user is , but in reality you’re just the joke .
What month was this? I've that water is really cold. We're going mid September. Hoping not to be shivering. lol
Scam alert, 100% markup over street value. Do not buy from them it's a rip off.
those are obviously car headlights, they're all appearing on that ridge line and moving in a pattern consistent with traffic
This makes me happy.
I'm English and I've only just discovered this form of dancing, I love it. Young old big small they all have a go brilliant.
Much done in UK over centuries
Stay vigilant, God is with us. 🕊️🕊️🕊️
That was interesting
We call these min min lights in Australia. They are in the outback. I understand that our aboriginal people are afraid of them
Alot bigger than Dale Hollow 😮
AMAZING!
Got to be underground base there why don’t you head over there or move closer get drone go camping there u mite find out get better camera 😊
Good work! The low water views compared to the high water ones are really helpful.
$52 million into the general revenue slush fund or will anyone actually see any benefit from that Federal money ?
Once again the government hoses the tax payers... they broke a pact that displaced hard scrabble poor rural people and payed the state instead of living relatives. What a farce..
That was quite interesting. Thank you.
10:30 SCV preserving our history and heritage.
Alway love to see the horses. Thank for a great video.
TODAY was the first time in 30+ years I had seen anything from the DD, having just looked them up on TH-cam just now. I saw a clip from the late 80s first and then this one, and I could swear there are some of the same dancers, especially the last gentleman with the Buddy Ebsen-inspired moves. Y'all are just great and you make an Appalachian girl proud!
It's nice to see you guys still clogging together and I'd recognize Paul any day. I competed back in the 80's on other teams and a few times filling in with you all!
Dude someone needs to send a drone over there!!!
P r o m o s m ☹️
Great I love Smokey my history!!!
It is a great place to take out a pontoon boat. I have been out on that lake many times.
Anyone else hear the ticking/whining in the audio when the lights are visible? Is that just the equipment adjusting to the brightness?
I noticed that as well. Interesting for sure v