• Approximately 1,500 black bears live in the national park.

    Great Smoky Mountains

    National Park NC,TN

What's Blooming: Late March

Take a tour of two popular wildflower viewing trails to see what's blooming in the park in late March. This video is closed captioned. To turn captions on or off, click on the caption button in the right-hand corner of the viewer control bar.

 
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Did You Know?

The park is named for the misty clouds that hang over the mountains.

The wispy, smoke-like fog that hangs over the Smoky Mountains comes from rain and evaporation from trees. On the high peaks of the Smokies, an average of 85 inches of rain falls each year, qualifying these upper elevation areas as temperate rain forests.