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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the most-visited U.S. national park and located in parts of both North Carolina and Tennessee, welcomed a record 11.4 million visitors in 2018. That's nearly 20% growth from 2008. The park opened a new section of the Foothills Parkway last year between Walland, Tenn., and Wears Valley, Tenn., which saw a record nearly 200,000 visitors in the months...