A lottery for tickets to the 2026 synchronous firefly viewing event in the Great Smoky Mountains opens in mid-April. The park ...

Synchronous firefly season is approaching and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park has announced the dates for it's annual ...

Dates to view the synchronous fireflies show in Great Smoky Mountains National Park have been announced. Here’s when and how ...

The National Park Service has announced that the 2026 synchronous firefly viewing event will take place from May 20 through ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park opens its lottery for exclusive firefly viewing at Elkmont. Apply April 24-27.

It’s a natural event that only happens in the Smokies, and thousands of people enter a lottery each year to witness the magic ...

The yearly lottery for synchronous firefly viewing opportunities in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will open soon, viewing dates announced.

GATLINBURG, TN – They came out one by one and then all at once, swarming the underbrush and pooling in the hollows, blinking crazily like fiber optic filaments in a planetarium or outer space-themed ...

Elkmont, Tenn. — Elkmont, Tenn. - On Thursday, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park will start shuttling thousands of lucky people to the highly anticipated synchronous firefly show in Elkmont. The ...

FOREST COUNTY, Pa. — It all started as these stories sometimes do—by accident. “We didn't know that they were on the property,” said Peggy Butler who, along with her husband Ken, lives on a rural ...