Apparently too many people were ignoring warning about "social distancing"
{been reading online that hundreds have continued to hike the AT out to Charlies Bunion}
So the park service has decided to close.
While surrounding communities on the NC side have already been shutting down (the Indian Reservation already shut down it's borders to non-residents), surprised the governments of Gatlinburg and Pigieon Forge hadn't already been doing the same {too afraid to loose those tourist dollars?}