Smokies to require parking passes beginning next March

FILE - Visitors walk down Laurel Creek Road to Cades Cove after parking along the road because parking lots around the Cove were full, on June 24, 2020, in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Beginning March 2023, visitors to Great Smoky Mountains National Park will need to purchase a parking pass to use the facilities. (Tom Sherlin/The Daily Times via AP, File)