As part of the Centennial Celebration of the National Park Service, Discover Life in America is partnering with the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to provide a bioblitz on the North Carolina side of the park.

Participants will gather in the morning at the park's Oconaluftee Visitors Center, on Rt 441, near Cherokee, NC. The event is slated to take place from 9 am to 3 pm. Participants must provide their own lunch.

If you are new to the park, we suggest that you also view the park's web pages containing general visitor guidelines at https://www.nps.gov/grsm/planyourvisit/index.htm

Also note that a Smokies Pollinator Guide has been started in iNaturalist for easier pollinator species recognition for the bioblitz for the more common insect pollinators.