Category Archives: Hiking Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Hen Wallow Falls

Visit the Cosby area and discover this beautiful cascade that’s nearly 100 feet tall! Click here and find out how this waterfall and nearby creek may have come about their rather unflattering names…
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Alum Cave Bluffs Trail in Winter

 

Come along with Elizabeth and Jill on a winter wonderland hike to Alum Cave Bluffs! Click here to see the video! It’s beautiful!

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Winter Abstract: Icicles and Snow

 

Freezing temperatures leave behind a strange wonderland of ice and snow in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Click here to see the frozen beauty of the Smokies!

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Waiting for Wannetta…

 

December 3 is a special day at Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It’s the day that Wannetta Johnson brings a poinsettia to Park Headquarters. Click here or on the photo to find out why she has made this special trip every year for the past 35 years.

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Hike to Abrams Falls

 

A hike to Abrams Falls is the perfect centerpiece to a day spent in Cades Cove. Click here or on the photo to see why it has become one of the most popular trails in the park.

Discovering Smoky Mountain Magic

 

Eighty years after its completion, Horace Kephart’s previously unpublished novel, Smoky Mountain Magic, has been released by Great Smoky Mountains Association. Click here or on the photo to hear the journey of the novel with Libby Kephart Hargrave, the author’s great-granddaughter.

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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Mysterious Mushroom

Ivonne Camp of the Retired Citizens of Gatlinburg Hiking Club (a wonderful group) took this photo of a bizarre mushroom in the park.

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LeConte Lodge Hike & Overnight

Discover Life in America (DLIA) facilitates and coordinates the All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI) for Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
This is one of the world’s biggest and most ambitious science projects.
DLIA is hosting the 1st ever “Discover Biodiversity at LeConte Lodge” with a guided hike and overnight stay.
It includes a guided hike up Alum Cave [...]