Workers clear storm damage from Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday, July 7, 2012, near Townsend, Tenn., as rangers shifted their focus Saturday from rescue efforts to reopening the popular area to the public. Violent storms on Thursday night led to two deaths and several injuries in the park. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
Workers clear storm damage from Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday, July 7, 2012, near Townsend, Tenn., as rangers shifted their focus Saturday from rescue efforts to reopening the popular area to the public. Violent storms on Thursday night led to two deaths and several injuries in the park. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
Storm damage blocks a road in Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday, July 7, 2012, near Townsend, Tenn., about a half-mile from where a motorcyclist was killed when a branch fell on his head on Thursday. Workers sought to clear debris and teetering trees as officials shifted their focus from rescue efforts to reopening the popular area to the public. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
Workers clear storm damage from Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday, July 7, 2012, near Townsend, Tenn., as rangers shifted their focus Saturday from rescue efforts to reopening the popular area to the public. Violent storms on Thursday night led to two deaths and several injuries in the park. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
Workers clear storm damage from Great Smoky Mountains National Park on Saturday, July 7, 2012, near Townsend, Tenn., as rangers shifted their focus Saturday from rescue efforts to reopening the popular area to the public. Violent storms on Thursday night led to two deaths and several injuries in the park. (AP Photo/Erik Schelzig)
TOWNSEND, Tenn. (AP) ? Rangers will soon reopen part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park after violent storms caused the park to close.
Chief Ranger Clayton Jordan said the park would reopen the Cades Cove area by 6 p.m. EDT.
The storms hit at the west end of the 500,000-acre reserve on the Tennessee-North Carolina line. Two people were killed and several others were injured.
Dozens of campers were still in the Cades Cove area Saturday.
Much of the damage was in Cades Cove and in communities just outside the park boundaries.
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