Tag your Friends! Get your Friends of the Smokies specialty license plate in Tennessee and North Carolina. They drive improvements in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Learn how to get our beautiful bear on your bumper below.
NORTH CAROLINA
North Carolina charges an extra $30 annual fee for our specialty license plate with $20 going directly to Friends of the Smokies.
Specialty license plates may be ordered online or at your local License Plate Agency Office. Either way, it will be mailed to you. If ordering at an office, you will be given a temporary tag for use until your permanent plate arrives in the mail.
Switching to a specialty plate does not have to coincide with renewing your vehicle’s registration. You can get one at any time.
To get yours:
- Order online from myNCDMV
- Stop in at your local NC Vehicle and License Plate Office.
TENNESSEE
The Friends of the Smokies license plate in Tennessee costs an extra $35 annually with $30.75 going to Friends of the Smokies to help preserve and protect the national park.
To get yours:
- Visit your county clerk’s office. You can find a list of every county clerk and a link to their websites at tn.gov, Follow the link to your county clerk’s website to see all the available office locations and hours of operation.
- Bring your registration and existing plate to the clerk’s office and exchange it for a Friends of the Smokies specialty plate. You can do this any time without coinciding with renewing your registration. The county clerk will prorate your fees.
- If you already have a Friends of the Smokies tag and want to renew it online, you can do so at TNCountyClerk.com.
THE IMPACT
The Friends of the Smokies tag is one of the top-selling specialty license plates in Tennessee. Since 1998, it has raised more than $9 million to help preserve and protect Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Our North Carolina specialty license plate was designed by Micah McClure. As one of the most popular specialty license plates in the state, it generates more than $400,000 annually to support projects and programs in the North Carolina portion of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Thank you, Friends!
Do you have a bear plate? We want to give you a sticker, too!
Let us know you have a Friends of the Smokies plate by filling out this form and we’ll send you a special sticker!
Please note: You must complete the address information in order to receive your sticker in the mail. Stickers are mailed once a month.