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Travel Blogs from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, United States
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En remontant de Floride, après une nuit près d'Atlanta, nous sommes allés faire un tour au Great Smoky Mountains National Park, histoire de retrouver des températures plus acceptables. Ancien habitat des Indiens Cherokee, le parc est aussi le plus ...
Great Smokey Mountains
... . The food was good too! Back to nature - Our route took us right through the centre of the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. This is an absolutely stunning drive, and has some wonderful hiking trails. We chose the 3 mile Laurel Falls ...
Smokin' Pigeons...
... had already been banned from this place) we entered in small groups to try and avoid detection! The facilities were great, showers, pool with diving board, gym, basketball court and other all American type sporting facilities, though we all headed ...
Smokin’ in the Mountains...
We arrived at a very hot and humid Pigeon Forge City Park, just outside of the Smokey Mountains National Park. We exploded the bags in the usual manner and got ready for the day ahead. The days' activity was a very expensive horse riding trek in our ...
Lazy day
... in the hotel until about for then go and do the aerial tram that takes you about 2 miles up and has stunning views of the smoky mountains. The car's can fit 120 people in so are quite big and go up really quickly and i felt a bit dizzy looking down at ...
Classic car chaos
... some breakfast at waffle house and get going on our drive which will be about 4hours today. We make good time and get to the smoky mountains early we have less than10 miles to go to get to our hotel when we hit gridlock three lanes at standstill as far ...
Coaching in the Mountains
The reason for our trip was a coaching clinic for the boys. We went for a long weekend in Gatlinburg and The Great Smoky Mountains. ...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
... Great Smoky Mountains National Park Most of yesterday was spent driving to our next destination of choice, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. One thing the Americans have definitely done well is infrastructure. The roads are perfectly smooth and ...
So Beautiful....
We found a spot somewhere on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. It was so beautiful we spent a few days here and did everything. We did some white water rafting near our site and met a friend. She was a cat the lived there and loved sleeping in ...
Boogerman Trail
... hikes.. We left the Triangle area just after 7 and headed out west, arriving in the Cataloochee area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park around noon. We had lunch at the campground, then started on the Caldwell Fork Trail. After ...
Through the Smokies
... . After popping around the corner to the supermarket again to pick up the odd item, we headed off to the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. We stopped at the Oconaluftee Visitor Centre on entry into the national park and got our stamp for our passbook ...
Day 18 - The Middle
... change. After only a couple more hours on the road, we landed in Pigeon Forge – one of the towns that border Smoky Mountains National Park. There we stopped at a bookstore so the girls could get some new reading material, and we then took them ...
Yellows, Oranges, Reds...oh Autumn :)
... to me I believe. Growing up in flat-as-can-be Delaware, appreciating altitude comes easy. We took roads directly through the Smoky Mountains in Western NC/Eastern TN. Various layers of fog and clouds just hover over treetops and mountain peaks creating an ...
Our adventure begins
... hiking to do, people. Once we reached the turn off for Parson's Branch Road (an "improved road" according to my Great Smoky Mountains National Park trail and road map), we found a gravel portion of the road. Oh, wait. "Improved" doesn't ...
I am King of the World!
... nbsp;(for cars or bike) where wildlife is comes out of the forest to graze in the open fields. It was a breathtaking drive with the smoky mountains in front of you. We saw a family of deer, turkeys, more deer, old houses, churches, and gorgeous fields for ...
Tennessee side of the Appalachians...Bears!!
... deserve to be.” When we arrived at the Monument, I learned that Andrew Johnson was the 17th President of the United States, and he became President because he was Vice President when Abe Lincoln was assassinated. I learned that he ...
Great Smokey Mountains N.P.
... other hikers were there as well. Great sight and it was our second bear sighting after our encounter in 2009 at Redwood National Park. We also met an interesting character who told us about aliens and an upcoming invasion and was traveling with his ...
Gettin' High
Great Smoky Mountains National Park, over 9 million visitors a year. Start your visit to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and your drive to Tennessee's highest point at Sugarlands Visitor Center. Exhibits to see and rangers to assist with ...
Enloe Creek Falls Attempt
For our annual fall foliage trip this year, we stayed at the Cataloochee group campsites at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Sandy and I left after work Friday night and arrived at the camp at around 10. We set up our tent and went to bed ...
Ramsey Cascade
After breaking camp, we headed to the Greenbrier area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park for one last waterfall before heading home. The road in is initially paved then turns to another scary gravel road for about 5 miles to the trailhead. The road ...
For Your Eyes Only....
"The Great Smoky Mountains National Park" - A Heaven on Earth. The most Scenic place I have ever seen is the Smoky Mountains National Park. Living up to its name, if you wanna see smoke clouds entering mountains, this is the place. Its a ...
Bag lunches and Black Bears
... the tremendous views and unique geology, the park is home to the second largest black bear population in the continental United States Additionally the Smokey's house North America's largest Salamanders and if that wasn't enough, it has a ...
Mt LeConte Hike
After getting out of bed at the crack of dawn, I hit the road at 6 AM. I met with the rest of our group and met at Newfound Gap. Our hike began at 8:15 AM at the Alum Cave Bluff hiking trail. We arrived at Alum Cave 2.5 miles into the ...
Boogerman Trail
... Boogerman Trail and turned right to begin a gradual climb. Along the way, we saw some artifacts from before the area was a park - an unknown metal device, an old foundation, and some stone walls, including one that is still in very good shape. ...
Great Rainy Mountain National Park
Highlights: We had our first good Indian food in Asheville (but we miss Jaipur Walla A LOT!) Blue Ridge Parkway Lowlights: The Smoky Mountains turned into the foggy and rainy ...
Day 19 - ...and the rain finally caught up with us
... the Visitors Center, it was raining steadily and the clouds had come in pretty low. The prospects for big views in the mountains were pretty grim. Nonetheless, we headed up the Newfound Gap road toward, where else, Newfound Gap and the North ...
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
... a stop for lunch it took about 12 hours to get here. We also stopped in Gatlinburg for dinner before entering the park. We stopped at the rest area which sits on the Tennessee-North Carolina border. We then went to Clingmans Dome before ...
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