A June night in the Smokies, when the ferns go quiet and the whole hollow starts blinking at once. The synchronous fireflies are the thing nobody photographs well and nobody forgets — so this one is drawn instead: gold light rising through the understory, the ridgelines stacked black against a deep blue sky.
It is printed on museum-quality enhanced matte art paper with a smooth, glare-free surface that keeps the deep night blues rich and the firefly gold clean rather than dulled under a shine. The stock is thick enough to hang flat rather than curl, and all three sizes are standard poster proportions, so it can go up the week it arrives.
- 📄 Paper: museum-quality enhanced matte art paper at 189 g/m², with a smooth, glare-free surface
- 📏 Thickness: 10.3 mil — substantial stock that hangs flat instead of curling at the corners
- 🌑 Opacity: 94%, so wall colour and frame backing never ghost through the print
- ✨ ISO brightness: 104% — clean whites and colour that stays true rather than washing out
- 🗾 Paper origin: sourced from Japan, then printed for you after you order and shipped from the United States
Size guide
| Size | Best for |
|---|---|
| 📏 12" x 18" | Shelves, hallways and gallery walls. The park name stays crisp from a few feet away and it pairs easily with other prints. |
| 📐 18" x 24" | The everyday favourite. Big enough to hold a bedroom or home-office wall on its own, small enough to hang as a pair or a trio. |
| 🖼️ 24" x 36" | A single statement piece over a sofa, bed or stairwell. Reads clearly right across an open-plan room. |
Quick answers
Does it arrive framed? No — it ships unframed so you can pick your own moulding. All three sizes are standard US poster proportions, so off-the-shelf frames fit without custom cutting.
How is the artwork arranged on the sheet? The illustration is a square panel centred on the paper, with a matching border above and below it. That keeps the whole design — including the park name along the edge — intact at every size, with nothing cropped away. The proportions are identical across all three sizes.
What is on the Great Smoky Mountains print? A summer night scene — synchronous fireflies rising through ferns and rocks in the forest floor, layered ridgelines and a rising moon behind. "GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK" runs across the top and "TENNESSEE · NORTH CAROLINA", the two states the park straddles, sits along the base.
Is this an official National Park Service product? No. This is an original RaZits illustration drawn in the vintage national-park travel-poster style. It is not affiliated with, licensed by or endorsed by the National Park Service, and it carries no NPS insignia.
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