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In a record year for landslides, yet another one struck this week, this time along U.S. 441 in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The slide occurred Monday near Newfound Gap, about a mile from the Tennessee state line. One lane of the road is open to traffic. The park hopes to reopen two lanes by commandeering a portion of an overlook parking area for a travel lane.
U.S. 441 between Cherokee and Gatlinburg is one of the only routes between North Carolina and Tennessee that is passable. Three other highways between the two states are closed due to rockslides of their own.
• Interstate 40 has been closed for five months now near the state line.
• U.S. 64, which runs between Murphy and Chattanooga, is also closed due to a rockslide.
• U.S. 129, which leads from Robbinsville to Maryville, Tenn., is also closed due to a rockslide.
There have been four other landslides in the region: a major one in Maggie Valley that forced an evacuation of several homes, one that took out a road and a lot in the Water Dance development in Jackson County, one that took out a road and a lot in the Wildflower development in Macon County, and one in Macon County that could be partly to blame for destabilizing a home foundation.
Moreover, there have been two more rockslides on the Tennessee side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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