Architect1776 wrote:
For the type of smoke you will encounter there is really nothing that will deal well with the air full of actual particles.
It is of a different nature than the moisture haze one generally encounters.
Why rush to go there? Can you hold off and go somewhere else, if you have to go somewhere no matter what?
You say you have been there many times so it is not like a trip of a lifetime.
Perhaps the Smokey Mountain Park instead.
Right now the best place in the smokies (Cades Cove) for wildlife is closed for the rest of the month at least for road work.