Great Smoky Mountains Association

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The purpose of Great Smoky Mountains Association (GSMA) is to help the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Through sales, labor, donations, and volunteer efforts, GSMA provides the National Park Service with additional tools for fulfilling its mission.

Great Smoky Mountains Association is a nonprofit organization authorized by Congress to support the Park's educational, scientific, and historical programs. Its mission is to enhance public enjoyment and understanding of Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

To accomplish this goal, GSMA participates in a variety of activities that include: distribution and publication of educational books and guides, funding visitor center exhibits and artifact collections, sponsoring free historic demonstrations and festivals, funding the Park's library, and helping fund the environmental education program at the Institute at Tremont. Since its creation in March 1953, GSMA has contributed aid to the Park total over $30 million, including the entire three million in construction costs for the Oconaluftee Visitor Center, opened in April 2011.

Publications, sales, and membership dues sustain these operations. Revenue from online purchases go directly toward accomplishing this mission.

See also[]

• Wildflowers of the Great Smoky Mountains
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Cassius Cash

External links[]

• Great Smoky Mountains Association Home Page
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park