Site seeing: Smoky Mountains tour

Published 3:56 pm Tuesday, July 15, 2008

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park has unveiled an interactive Web site giving viewers a virtual tour of activities planned to celebrate the park’s 75th anniversary.

The site at www.greatsmokies75th.org invites visitors to share photos and stories of their experiences in the country’s most-visited national park.

The site also provides a history lesson on the creation of the park, which straddles the North Carolina-Tennessee line, and efforts to protect it. The park was founded June 15, 1934.

Associated Press