Tennessee

By Travelog Editorial Team · Updated August 8, 2026

Tennessee is live on Travelog with one destination, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, inscribed by UNESCO in 1983 under criteria (vii), (viii), (ix), and (x) for exceptional natural beauty and ecological diversity. The park straddles Tennessee and North Carolina; this guide covers it from the Tennessee side. It's the only US national park with no entrance fee at all, a legally mandated condition dating to a 1951 road-transfer deed restriction.

Great Smoky Mountains is the only national park in the entire USA build without an entrance fee, a legally documented exception worth understanding directly, covered in full below.