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Open every day except Christmas Day.
January 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
February 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
March 1 - April 24 Closed
April 24 - August 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
Closed April 24
August 9:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
September - October 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
November 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
December 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Inside the park near the mid-point of the 11-mile, one-way Cades Cove Loop Road.
Ranger-led programs are conducted seasonally. Check at the visitor center for times.
Indoor and outdoor exhibits of Southern Mountain life and culture. Includes Cable Mill, a grist mill which operates spring through fall, the Becky Cable house, and other historic structures.
Great Smoky Mountains Association bookstore and shop. Public restrooms.
Open every day except Christmas Day
January - April 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
May 8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
June - August
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
September - October 8:30 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
November - December 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Inside the park, 2 miles north of Cherokee, NC, on US 441.
Special Programs
Ranger-led programs conducted seasonally. Check at the vistor center for location and times.
The adjacent Mountain Farm Museum contains a fascinating collection of log structures including a farmhouse, barn, smokehouse, applehouse, corn cribs and others. Demonstrations of farm life are conducted seasonally.
Great Smoky Mountains Association bookstore and shop. Public restrooms and telephones. Soda and water machines. Backcountry permit station.
Open every day except Christmas Day.
January - February 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
March 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
April - May 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
June - August 8:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
September - October 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
November 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
December 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Inside the park, 2 miles south of Gatlinburg on US 441.
Ranger-led programs conducted seasonally. Check at the visitor center for locations and times.
Free admission to 20-minute film with Dolby Digital Surround Sound. Extensive natural history exhibits.
Great Smoky Mountains Association bookstore and shop. Public restrooms and telephones. Soda and water machines. Backcountry permit station.
Open every day except Christmas Day.
April - October 8:30 a.m. - 7:00 p.m.
November - March 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.
At traffic light #3 on the parkway in downtown Gatlinburg.
Great Smoky Mountains Association bookstore and shop. City of Gatlinburg information. Public restrooms and telephones.
Open every day except Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.
January - May 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
June - October 9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
November- December 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Townsend, Tennessee, on US 321.
Great Smoky Mountains Association bookstore and shop. Townsend and local area information. Public restrooms and telephones.
Open From March 15 through the Sunday following Thanksgiving 9:00-5:00
Inside the park near the mid-point of the 11-mile, one-way Cades Cove Loop Road.
Water-powered grist mill.
Open From March 15 through the Sunday following Thanksgiving 9:00-5:00
Inside the park, 2 miles north of Cherokee, NC, on US 441.
Turbine-powered grist mill.
Maine ocean islands provide the only nesting sites for Atlantic puffins in the United States. Eastern Egg Rock in the midcoast region, Seal Island and Matinicus Rock at the mouth of Penobscot Bay, and Machias Seal Island and Petit Manan Island off the downeast coast provide habitat for more than 4,000 puffins each summer.