Great Smoky Mtns. NP Features

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The Bear Facts

Black-bear attacks in the Great Smokies or elsewhere in the mountains are extremely rare, but they do...

The Trail

Each spring about 1,500 hikers set out to conquer the Appalachian Trail (AT), the 2,175-mi granddaddy...

Wet or Dry?

The mountains sometimes seem to have a schizophrenic attitude toward alcohol. Making moonshine was once...

Fish tales

There are 30 mi of regularly stocked trout streams on the Cherokee Indian Reservation (828/497-5201 or......

Take a Hike

A five-minute hike from the Mingo Falls Campground (Big Cove Rd., about 4 mi north of Acquoni Rd.) will......

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