Nature
Appalachian Parks: 3 Live Cameras — the blue haze
Three cameras on America's oldest mountains. The blue haze the range is named for, a road that follows a ridge, and a gorge seen whole from a terrace.
What you can see
All three sit on one old range, the Appalachians.
The Great Smoky Mountains cameras are four instruments placed high up to measure air quality. They were not installed for sightseeing. That is exactly why the blue haze the range is named for looks different every day. Compare a hazy day with a clear one and you can see what the camera is really measuring.
Shenandoah sits along Skyline Drive, a road that follows the crest of the Blue Ridge. It looks down into the valley and refreshes every 15 minutes.
New River Gorge is a canyon cut by an old Appalachian river, seen whole from the visitor center terrace.
The reason to keep the three together: they show one range from three heights - haze, ridge, valley floor. Open all three on one day and you can read where the weather changes.
Cameras you can watch now: 3
All 3 are still images. Tap one to open it in the camera list.
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Sample September 2026
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Tennessee · World Heritage · Nature
Four cameras set high up to measure air quality. The blue haze the mountains are named for hangs differently every day.
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Sample September 2026
Shenandoah National Park
Virginia · Nature
Along Skyline Drive, the ridge road of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It faces down into the valley and refreshes every fifteen minutes.
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Sample September 2026
New River Gorge National Park
West Virginia · Nature · River
A gorge cut by one of the oldest rivers in the Appalachians. From the visitor center overlook the whole valley lies below.
When to watch
The operator publishes no viewing season, and we will not invent one here. The haze and the 15-minute refresh come from the camera descriptions.
The eastern US is 13 hours behind Japan on daylight time, 14 hours behind on standard time. Measured: 03:00 Japan time on daylight time, or 04:00 on standard time, is 14:00 in the eastern US (checked 2026-09-04).
So if you watch from East Asia, early morning is their afternoon. Open these in your evening and the east is still dark before dawn. If you cannot be up in the small hours, first thing in the morning is the safe bet.
If it isn't showing
All three also appear on the United States page. The landforms are in Nature, New River Gorge in River, and the Great Smokies in World Heritage.
Other American parks are in US and Korean National Parks, and the Rockies in Rocky Mountain Parks. For a comparison with Japan, see Autumn Leaves.
Why these cameras are not tourist cameras is explained in US national park cameras; the time zones are in Which cameras are in daylight now.
Where to find Appalachian Parks
Agencies publishing the cameras on this page
- U.S. National Park Service (U.S. government work) — Official site
The footage belongs to each agency. This site is an unofficial guide, and each sample frame was copied once per camera under that agency's terms of use.