Great Smoky Mt. Chimney Poster Plateau Improved roads soon followed

Improved roads soon followed

Visits to The Wave are administered by the Bureau of Land Management via a lottery system

From 1881 to 1947

Completed on June 6

to the name of this vast network of desert canyons and plateaus

Great Smoky Mt. Chimney Poster Plateau Improved roads soon followedDescription 14" x 22" poster Interpretive Copy Hope for a national park between the cities of Asheville, North Carolina and Knoxville, Tennessee gathered steam in the early 1920s. In May 1926, President Calvin Cooledge signed a bill providing for the creation of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Purchasing the land, however, proved difficult, and years passed before development began. The park was finally dedicated by Franklin Delano Roosevelt on