Title 16, ConservationRelease 119-102

§403f Great Smoky Mountains National Park; Extension of Boundaries

Title 16 › CHAPTER 1 — NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES › SUBCHAPTER XLVI — SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK › § 403f

Last updated Aug 21, 2026|Official source

Summary

The park’s eastern boundary is moved outward from the line in the Secretary of the Interior’s April 14, 1926 report to include nearby lands. The new boundary runs along mountain tops from a point on the Balsam Mountains at the Swain and Hayward County line, past Black Camp Gap, Jonathan Knob, Hemphill Bald, Camp Gap, Bent Knee Knob, and to Cataloochee Creek, then back to the 1926 boundary. The United States may accept any or all of the land inside this new boundary under sections 403 and 403a–403c to add it to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Title 16, §403f

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The boundary limits of the tract of land in the Great Smoky Mountains in the States of North Carolina and Tennessee, recommended by the Secretary of the Interior in his report of April 14, 1926, for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, are extended to include lands adjacent to the east boundary as defined in said report to a line approximately as follows: From a point on top of the Balsam Mountains at the boundary of Swain and Hayward Counties just north of Black Camp Gap; thence following east the top of the mountain range to Jonathan Knob and Hemphill Bald; thence along top of ridge through Camp Gap to Bent Knee Knob; thence following the main ridge to Cataloochee Creek to a point on the boundary of the area described in report of the Secretary of the Interior of April 14, 1926; and the lands within said boundary extension, or any part thereof, may be accepted on behalf of the United States in accordance with the provisions of section 403 and 403a to 403c of this title for inclusion in the area to be known as the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

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Citation

16 U.S.C. § 403f

Title 16, Conservation

Last Updated

Aug 21, 2026

Release point: 119-102