Daniel Boone NF Weather

Current weather maps and data for the Daniel Boone National Forest.

Current weather in HD

Current weather maps and data for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.

Cumberland Gap NHP Weather

Current weather maps and data for the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park.

Great Smoky Mountains NP Weather

Current weather maps and data for the Great Smoky Mountains.

Current webcams for the Great Smoky Mountains.

Current webcam from Look Rock, Tennessee.

Current webcams for the Great Smoky Mountains.

Current webcam from Mammoth Cave NP, Kentucky. Yesterday

Current view of our parks and forests

Current satellite image from the GOES-16 platform.
Enlarge (900 KB) | Two-hour time-lapse (10 MB) | Yesterday's time-lapse (100 MB) | BW animation

Weather in the Woods

We aggregate data from the National Weather Service, National Park Service, Weather Underground, and friendly twitter and blog feeds to help hikers understand weather and road conditions for the Daniel Boone National Forest and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Each station (GRSM, CUGA, and DBNF) offers current weather observations, forecasts, webcams, archives, and climate information that updates every 15 minutes. Smell the mountain air, through the internet.

Recent Photographs & Maps

Sheltowee Trail

Sheltowee Trail Rough Trail, Red River Gorge

Cumberland Gap, ridge and v...

Cumberland Gap, ridge and valley, and impact crater The interesting physiography of southeastern Kentucky and southw...

Webcam Animations

Archive of animations for the Great Smoky Mountains
Great Smoky animations, updated daily (2015 to present)
Go Explore!

Our Favorite Hikes

Swift Camp Creek Trail inte...
Explore a 3D view of Swift Camp Creek

Explore a 3D view of Swift Camp Creek

This interactive 3D map was built in QGIS using a add-on named QGIS2Threejs. The add-on builds the model from digital elevation model in QGIS and drapes the layers symbolized in map view over the model. It utilizes javascript to make interactive in browser.

E...

Maps and Weather

Experimenting with Geolocat...

We have a lot of great raster base map services available in Kentucky and I wanted to access them for my current location when I use my mobile device in the field. While there are many ways to make a mobile map, I wanted use Leaflet JS and build a custom geolocation service using the Geolocation ...

Our Clients' Maps

A simple GPS tool for the p...

If you visit this site often, you likely have a favorite map app on your phone. I certainly do and I have installed dozens of apps over the years. Most focus on placing your location as a dot on the map.

The dot

Any map app that shows your location as a dot on the map fosters a dependence on your...