Road Conditions in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Road Conditions

Open and Closed Roads in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

• Balsam Mountain Road NC is OPEN.
   
• Cades Cove TN (Cades Cove Loop Road) is OPEN.
  
  Wednesday and Saturday mornings Cades Cove Loop Road is open to hikers and bicyclists
  and closed to motor vehicles until 10 am from May 5th until September 22nd, 2010.
   
• Cades Cove TN (Forge Creek Road) is OPEN.
   
• Cades Cove TN (Hyatt Lane) is OPEN.
   
• Cades Cove TN (Parson Branch Road) is OPEN.
   
• Cades Cove TN (Primitive Babist Church Road) is OPEN.
   
• Cades Cove TN (Rich Mountain Road) is OPEN.
   
• Cades Cove TN (Sparks Lane) is OPEN.
   
• Cataloochee Entrance Road NC is OPEN.
   
• Clingmans Dome Road NC is OPEN.
   
• Cherokee Orchard Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Cosby Entrance Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Elkmont Campground Entrance Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Fontana Dam Access Road to the AT NC is CLOSED to vehicles.
   
• Foothills Parkway East TN (321 - Cosby TN - I-40) is OPEN.
   
• Foothills Parkway West TN (321 - Walland TN) is OPEN.
   
• Foothills Parkway Spur TN (Gatlinburg to Pigeon Forge) is OPEN.
   
• Gatlinburg Bypass TN (Newfound Gap Road to the Spur) is OPEN.
   
• Greenbrier Entrance Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Heintooga Ridge Road NC is OPEN.
   
• Lake View Drive NC is OPEN.
   
• Little Greenbrier Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Laurel Creek Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Little River Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Newfound Gap Road/US 441 (Cherokee NC - Gatlinburg TN) is OPEN.
   
• Old State Road 284 NC (Big Creek - Cataloochee) is OPEN.
   
• Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail TN is CLOSED to vehicles, hikers and bikes during construction for repaving. Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail will reopen Summer 2010
   
• Roundbottom/Straight Fork NC is now OPEN.
   
• Sinks Parking Area - Little River Road TN is OPEN
   
• Toms Branch Road NC is OPEN.
   
• Tremont Road TN is OPEN.
   
• Wears Gap Road TN is OPEN.
   

Road Construction in the Smoky Mountains National Park

• Newfound Gap Road (US 441) will have an ongoing paving starting March 16th and expected to be done by September 1st 2010 on the North Carolina side from the Collins Creek Picnic area to the National Park Boundary at Cherokee NC. Expect periodic lane changes.
   

Blue Ridge Parkway Road Conditions and Construction

• Mile marker 393.6 to 405.5 in North Carolina CLOSED due to high landslides risk until further notice.
   
• Mile marker 0 to 356 in Virginia to North Carolina. Guardrail replacements will cause traffic to be reduced to 1 lane as work is done through 2010.