Yellow Jeep represents friendship for three Smokies lovers

Carol Treiber and Alice Ann Sargeant next to the yellow jeep.

The experience of being in nature on our public lands consistently inspires creativity, no matter the time of life. Over the past few years, I’ve become friends with GSMA member Carol Treiber, who is 88, and receiving the correspondence she sends from assisted living in Bryson City has been a constant source of joy. Carol […]

Mabel Meets a Black Bear teaches kids to be BearWise

Mabel Meets a Black Bear book cover and interior pages

As days lengthen and temperatures rise, black bears begin to move around in the woods searching for insects, nuts, and berries. They also look for food in the gateway communities outside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. In sync with bears’ emergence, Great Smoky Mountains Association has just released a new book teaching kids the importance […]