Smokies Seeks Comments on Proposed Rehabilitation of Newfound Gap Road

The National Park Service (NPS) proposes to rehabilitate 14.5 miles of Newfound Gap Road on the Tennessee side of Great Smoky Mountains National Park (U.S. 441) and to reconstruct many of its stone masonry guardwalls. The work area runs from Park’s Gatlinburg, Tenn. Entrance and the North Carolina state line at Newfound Gap. Work is scheduled to begin in November 2010 and be completed in phases over about six years. The NPS is soliciting public comments in response to an Environmental Assessment (EA) which evaluates the potential resource and other impacts of that proposed action.

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Source: National Park Service