Hiking Trails of the SmokiesDon DeFoe, Steve Kemp, Kent Cave, Beth Giddens This special 5th Edition features over 100 revised pages. It covers all 150 official trails in Great Smoky Mountains National Park with in-depth narratives and invaluable profile charts that show mileage, elevation change, and major stream crossings at a glance. It includes information on all back-country campsites, shelters, regulations and permit/reservation information. New edition is pocket-sized and includes Mountains-to-Sea Trail and handy pocket in the back cover to hold park map. |
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Abrams Creek American beech Appalachian Trail ascends Balsam Mountain Big Creek blooms boulders Branch bridge cabin Cades Cove Caldwell Fork Camp Campground Campsite Cataloochee Cherokee Clingmans Dome Conte Creek Road Creek Trail crest Deep Creek Divide Trail Eastern hemlock elevation Falls ferns flowers Fontana Dam Fontana Lake Fork Trail Forney Creek Fraser fir Fraser magnolia Gap Trail Greenbrier grow Hazel Creek HIGHLIGHTS hikers hiking trail Horse and hiking Knob Lakeshore Trail Little River look MAP KEY maple miles the trail mountain laurel Mountain Trail Newfound Gap Newfound Gap Road parking area Prong Trail reach red spruce rhododendron Ridge Trail roadbed rocky rosebay rhododendron shelter side slope Smokemont Smoky Mountains Spence Field spring STARTING POINT steep Sugarlands switchback trail begins trail climbs trail continues trail crosses trail descends Trail Junction trail turns trailhead trees tuliptrees USGS quad valley views walk wildflowers woods yellow birch