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A Texas man has gone missing while visiting Great Smoky Mountains National Park along the North Carolina-Tennessee state line, according to the National Park Service.
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Sahil Jilani’s abandoned vehicle was found Wednesday, Oct. 7, at the Abrams Falls trailhead, the park said in a Facebook post.
Jilani, 24, was last seen around 8 p.m. Monday, Oct. 5, west of the park’s Tennessee boundary at the privately-operated Riverstone Campground in Townsend, park officials said. The campground is about a 15-mile drive from the Abram Falls trailhead, maps show.
The trail to Abram Falls is a 5-mile “roundtrip through rhododendron, hemlock, and pine-oak forest,” the park says. The highlight is a 25-foot waterfall that flows over a sandstone ledge into a pool.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park covers 522,427 acres, “divided almost evenly between the states of North Carolina and Tennessee,” the park says. It was the nation’s busiest popular National Park in 2025, had 11,527,939 visitors.
This story was originally published October 8, 2026 at 6:03 AM with the headline “Abandoned car found in Smoky Mountains belongs to missing Texas man, NC park says.”
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