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Smoky Mountain Living celebrates the Southern Appalachians’ people, culture, history, music, art, crafts and special places in six issues each year. From the Blue Ridge Parkway’s scenic curves to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s wild backcountry, from the Cherokee to the Cohutta National Forest, from small town treasures to the urban centers of Asheville and Knoxville, Smoky.
- Don't miss the action and excitement at Harrah's Cherokee Casino Resort! We now feature live table games like Blackjack, Roulette, Craps and more of your favorites!
- Sep 27, 2018 View of Western North Carolina from Clingmans Dome. Jim Renfro, NPS. Stunning Views Current digital images combined with weather and air quality information (if available) from monitoring locations in Great Smoky Mountains National Park are part of the NPS air quality web camera network, the National Ecological Observatory Network , and the PhenoCam Network.
Handmade for the Holidays
Imagine a special place in North Georgia where you can explore, shop, ponder, perform, learn, listen, create, sing, dance, cook, eat, play, walk and enjoy. That place is the Sautee Nacoochee Center, which has activities for people of all ages.Read more
Apple Time in the High Country
Two or three generations ago almost every mountain homestead had apple trees. Whether or not they rose to the status of meriting the term orchard, they provided welcome, indeed needful, additions to the family’s diet.Read more
Don’t Know Where I’m Going, All I Know Is Where I’ve Gone
For the better part of the last decade, 49 Winchester has been relentlessly working its way through the Southeast music industry—playing every stage and festival that’ll have’em.Read more
Having Faith In A Place
When traveling through Valdese, North Carolina, visitors may be struck by an attitude—in the architecture, the history, the personal stories—of a much older community. That sense isn’t misplaced; Valdese began as a place of respite.Read more
Saving Waterfalls
I fell in love with DuPont Forest only a few years after its creation. But in the year 2000, High Falls and other waterfalls and lakes were in serious danger of being part of a high-end housing development instead of public land.Read more
Handmade for the Holidays
Imagine a special place in North Georgia where you can explore, shop, ponder, perform, learn, listen, create, sing, dance, cook, eat, play, walk and enjoy. That place is the Sautee Nacoochee Center, which has activities for people of all ages.Read more
Dec 1, 2020
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Photo Essay, October 2020
See photo submissions from readers of Smoky Mountain Living magazine.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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Apple Time in the High Country
Two or three generations ago almost every mountain homestead had apple trees. Whether or not they rose to the status of meriting the term orchard, they provided welcome, indeed needful, additions to the family’s diet.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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Don’t Know Where I’m Going, All I Know Is Where I’ve Gone
For the better part of the last decade, 49 Winchester has been relentlessly working its way through the Southeast music industry—playing every stage and festival that’ll have’em.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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A Cold Night and A Warm Fire On the A.T.
I’d been feeling low-level grumpy for weeks about the fact that I’d somehow failed to fit a single backpacking trip into the fall months when an interesting message popped up on Facebook.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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Some Don’t Want to Blend In
The regal forms of butterflies and moths are often some of the most memorable visitors to a landscape. Although they tend to look quite different, both belong to the same order of insects, Lepidoptera.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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A Conversation With A Smokies Stargazer
After retiring to Swain County following successive careers in engineering and nursing, Knox Worde’s lifelong interest in science turned skyward. Worde currently serves as president of the Astronomy Club of Asheville.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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Pocket Knives
During my childhood, I liked to watch my father sharpen the clip blade of his pocket knife. He applied a thin layer of honing oil to his whetstone, and as he held the blade at an angle, he carefully stroked it across the stone till he was satisfied.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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The Lives of Others: David Joy’s When These Mountains Burn
Writer David Joy once said, “Good fiction allows the reader to step inside the body of another and view the world from a different perspective for a while. That’s the foundation for empathy, I think...'Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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Saving Waterfalls
I fell in love with DuPont Forest only a few years after its creation. But in the year 2000, High Falls and other waterfalls and lakes were in serious danger of being part of a high-end housing development instead of public land.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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A Fascination with Bigfoot
You may have felt it while hiking in the woods or spending time in nature—the sensation of being watched, yet there was no visible confirmation of anything to cause that feeling.Read more
Oct 1, 2020
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Photo essay, August 2020
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Aug 1, 2020
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