Sep 14 2024
Great Smoky Mountains National Park contains one of the most extensive hiking networks in the National Park System, with more than 800 miles of trails crossing forested valleys, rushing streams, waterfalls, grassy balds, historic settlements, and some of the highest mountains in the eastern United States. Choosing where to hike can be difficult because the …
Jun 19 2024
Great Smoky Mountains National Park protects more than half a million acres of ancient Appalachian mountains, rushing streams, old-growth forest, wildflower-covered slopes, historic cabins, waterfalls, high-elevation spruce-fir forest, and some of the greatest biological diversity found anywhere in the temperate United States. Straddling the border between Tennessee and North Carolina, the park is consistently the …
