To address this mounting human safety and wildlife conservation crisis, roughly 20 groups and agencies (including NPCA and Great Smoky Mountains Association, the park’s educational partner), formed ...

When the Safe Passage coalition started working in 2017 to make Interstate 40 a safer place for people and wildlife through the Pigeon River Gorge, nobody knew that, in a few short years ...

In 1968, Interstate 40 opened the Pigeon River Gorge to vehicular traffic ... Great Smoky Mountains National Park with Pisgah and Cherokee national forests. Wildlife could move freely between ...