Books

  • An Exaltation of Parks: John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Crusade to Save America's Wonderlands

    2025, University of Utah Press

    Now available in paperback and hardcover at Amazon or at U of U Press.

    Also available at the world’s coolest independent bookstores, including City Lights in Sylva, NC, Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa, Yankee Bookshop in Woodstock, Vermont, Malaprop’s in Asheville, North Carolina, and Sherman’s in Maine.

  • Trees of the Smokies

    By Steve Kemp. Photographs by Ken Voorhis

    2006, Great Smoky Mountains Association, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Five Decades of American Landscapes

    Foreword by Steve Kemp. Photos by Richard Mack

    2023 Quiet Light Publishing, Evanston, Illinois.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • The Great Smoky Mountains: A Visual Journey

    Foreword by Steve Kemp, Photos by Lee Mandrell and DeeDee Niederhouse-Mandrell

    2017, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN.

  • Great Smoky Mountains: Natural Wonder, National Park

    Text by Steve Kemp. Photographs by Adam Jones

    2003 Tide-mark Press, Windsor, Connecticut

  • Great Smoky Mountains Simply Beautiful

    Text by Steve Kemp. Photography by Adam Jones

    2004 Farcountry Press, Helena, Montana.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Backcountry Treks

    Chapter 9 by Steve Kemp

    Insight Guides

    2000, Discovery Travel Adventures

  • Great Smoky Mountains Impressions

    Text by Steve Kemp. Photography by George Humphries

    2002 Farcountry Press, Helena, Montana

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • We’re Going to the Mountains

    By Steve Kemp. Illustrations by Lisa Horstman

    2008, Great Smoky Mountains Association, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Who Pooped. In the Park?

    Written by Steve Kemp. Illustrated by Robert Rath

    2005, Farcountry Press, Helena, Montana

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Smokies Life & Smokies Life Journal

    Edited by Steve Kemp 2007-2017

    Edited by Frances Figart 2017-present

    Articles by Steve Kemp

    Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association/SmokiesLife

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Smokies Life & Smokies Life Journal

    Edited by Steve Kemp 2007-2017

    Edited by Frances Figart 2017-present

    Articles by Steve Kemp

    Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association/SmokiesLife

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Smokies Life & Smokies Life Journal

    Edited by Steve Kemp 2007-2017

    Edited by Frances Figart 2017-present

    Articles by Steve Kemp

    Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association/SmokiesLife

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Smokies Life & Smokies Life Journal

    Edited by Steve Kemp 2007-2017

    Edited by Frances Figart 2017-present

    Articles by Steve Kemp

    Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association/SmokiesLife

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Smokies Life & Smokies Life Journal

    Edited by Steve Kemp 2007-2017

    Edited by Frances Figart 2017-present

    Articles by Steve Kemp

    Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association/SmokiesLife

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Smokies Life & Smokies Life Journal

    Edited by Steve Kemp 2007-2017

    Edited by Frances Figart 2017-present

    Articles by Steve Kemp

    Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association/SmokiesLife

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Smokies Life & Smokies Life Journal

    Edited by Steve Kemp 2007-2017

    Edited by Frances Figart 2017-present

    Articles by Steve Kemp

    Published by Great Smoky Mountains Association/SmokiesLife

    Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org

  • Hiking Trails of the Smokies

    By Steve Kemp & Don DeFoe.

    2012, Great Smoky Mountains Association, Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

    Available at SmokiesLife.org