New signs directing visitors to the highest point in Great Smoky Mountains National Park have been installed after federal ...

Looking for a Great Smoky Mountain excursion that isn't crowded with people? Consider this overlooked peak, which features ...

Subscribe today. Great Smoky Mountains National Park (GSMNP) had more than 12 million visitors in 2024, or about 34,000 guests every day.

Guyot named the peak “ Clingmans Dome ” after his friend Thomas Lanier Clingman, a North Carolina U.S. senator and a Confederate brigadier general during the Civil War.

Daveynin via Flickr under CC BY 2.0 A 6,643-foot peak in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has been renamed “Kuwohi,” which means “mulberry place” in the Cherokee language.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park — One of the most popular spots in Great Smoky Mountains National Park has a different name. Clingmans Dome, the highest point in the national park and the ...

The highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is no longer named after a Confederate general. Following lobbying from the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the U.S. Board of ...

A spokesperson for the National Park Service told the Citizen Times Sept. 19 that staff are already working to update signage, websites and other materials with the Kuwohi name.

The name “Clingmans Dome” came after a survey by geographer Arnold Guyot in the late 1850s and was named after Thomas Lanier Clingman, a former U.S. House representative and senator from North ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee-North Carolina border, is America’s most visited national park, and Kuwohi is one its most popular sites, with more than 650,000 visitors ...

Clingmans Dome at Great Smoky Mountains National Park will be renamed "Kuwohi," which is the original Cherokee name of the site By Camruinn Morgan-Rumsey Published: Sep. 18, 2024 at 6:47 PM PDT ...

The summit, situated on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee, is one of the most popular spots in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, seeing over 650,000 visitors each year, officials say.