Tag Archives: Hiker

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
After Nine Years… Success!

Marti Smith, the manager of our stores at the Gatlinburg Welcome Center and the Parkway Welcome Center, is a very dedicated hiker.  This past Saturday, she finished hiking every single one of the 150 trails in the national park.  It took nine years, but she did it!
Click the photo below to see my video tribute [...]

GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
Stampede on the Appalachian Trail

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 [...]