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Early summer is the best time to visit Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The weather is perfect, everything in and around the park is fully open-and it's firefly season. There are 19 species of fireflies that call the park home, but only one draws crowds of spectators: the synchronous firefly, which, as a group, harmonize its light-flashing pattern into a spectacular light show when mating.