GSMNP

Lost Mine Falls

The Lost Iron Mine Hidden Behind a Waterfall in the Smoky Mountains

It’s not often we get a glimpse into the road not taken. There was a movement in the early 1900s to preserve the beauty of the Great Smoky Mountains and create the national park. But that movement came with consequences. Whether those consequences were good or bad depends on your point of view. Ultimately, people lost their homes, their land

A black bear in the Smoky Mountains

Are Bear Attacks Common in the Smoky Mountains? Incidents in 2021

If we’re going to talk about the “rash” of bear attacks and bear encounters in and around the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, then we may as well start with this:  The remains of a friend of mine from high school were found down a ravine in Blount County earlier in the year. He’d been partially consumed by animals, presumably