Whenever I visit Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, I think of my granddaddy: as a park naturalist in the Smokies back in the 1950s, he was in charge of setting up the motor nature trail and directed the preservation of old homesites in Cades Cove and Oconaluftee, too. To take a quick, car-free tour of [...]
We did our part to help the azaleas on Gregory Bald stay healthy… it’s all a matter of pretending you’re eating something like a small, watery apple… not a fungus. Yum yum! Click the photo below to learn more about the feast!
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 [...]