What a view! The 8-mile roundtrip hike to Charlies Bunion will reward you with a broad view of the Great Smoky Mountains that you won’t forget. And when you are done, you can say you’ve hiked on the Appalachian Trail! Click here to see what it’s like.
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A short walk on the Appalachian Trail offers displays of earlier spring flowers and specimens that grow only at the highest elevations. Click here to see what’s blooming on top of the Great Smoky Mountains.
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Experience a year’s worth of Smokies moments in this short film. Take a look back to the many places 2009 has taken our video blog. Click here or on the photo to see it all.
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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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There are so many things to do at Newfound Gap: check out the stunning views, visit the Rockefeller Memorial and stand where President Roosevelt stood, and straddle the Tennessee/North Carolina state line. Sound like fun? It was!
Click here or on the photo below to check out all there is to do at Newfound Gap!
Something you always wonder when you’re talking to AT hikers is:
are you really going to make it? 2,100 miles is a loooong way…
But thanks to Trailjournals.com, I was able to check up on the progress of some of the guys I met in April, and I was pleasantly surprised at the results. Here’s [...]
Okay, so it wasn’t really a stampede. But the Appalachian Trail in the Smokies gets quite crowded during the last two weeks in April when the thru-hikers arrive.
Despite the fact that they still had about 1,900 more miles to go, a bunch of hikers were nice enough to pause and talk to me (while [...]
“I’m Rabbit’s Foot,” he says. “That’s my trail name.”
He’s an AT thru-hiker, tall, with straight, sun-bleached blond hair and a tan that highlights his light blue eyes. He’d spent the night in town and was standing alongside the road, hoping to hitch a ride back to the AT when my boss picked him up and [...]