Great Smoky Mountains National Park Celebrates Christmas in the mountains

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park shares the spirit of an old fashioned Christmas with its visitors and friends on Dec 11 from 10 AM to 4 PM at the Sugarlands Visitor Center and Dec 18 from 10 AM to 2 PM at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center.

Celebrate 35th annual Festival of Christmas Past at Sugarland with old-time music, harp singing, storytelling and reminiscing, craft demonstrations such as weaving, spinning, quilting, oak splint and bark berry basket making, and corn shuck doll making, historic toys and games, and children's activites. At the Oconaluftee Visitor Center you may  enjoy an old-fashioned, mountain Christmas celebration at the Oconaluftee Visitor Center featuring craft demonstrations, hot cider and cookies.The events, sponsored in cooperation with Great Smoky Mountains Association, are free to the public

The Oconaluftee Visitor Center is located inside the park, 2 miles north of Cherokee, NC, on US-441. Sugarlands Visitor Center is located inside the park, 2 miles south of Gatlinburg on US-441.