---
kind: "section"
citation: "16 U.S.C. § 403f"
title: "16"
title_heading: "Conservation"
number: "403f"
heading: "Great Smoky Mountains National Park; extension of boundaries"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/16/403f"
units:
  - "Chapter 1 — National Parks, Military Parks, Monuments, and Seashores"
  - "Subchapter XLVI — Shenandoah National Park and Great Smoky Mountains National Park"
---

# §403f. Great Smoky Mountains National Park; extension of boundaries


The boundary limits of the tract of land in the Great Smoky Mountains in the [States](/usc/16/544.md?p=r) of North Carolina and Tennessee, recommended by the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) of the Interior in his report of April 14, 1926, for the establishment of the Great Smoky Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3), 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](/usc/16/544.md?p=d) 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](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) described in report of the [Secretary](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-1) 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 sections [403](/usc/16/403.md) and [403a](/usc/16/403a.md) to [403c](/usc/16/403c.md) of this title for inclusion in the [area](/usc/16/539m–1.md?p=1-A) to be known as the Great Smoky Mountains National [Park](/usc/16/410r–5.md?p=c-3).


## Source credit

(Apr. 19, 1930, ch. 197, 46 Stat. 225.)