Great Smoky Mountain National Park

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0 height="100%"><tr> <td valign="top" width=160 BGCOLOR="#BFBF00" TEXT="#080000" background="03f55663.gif"> <div> <B>Location:</B></div> <div> <B>On the Tennessee/North Carolina Border halfway between Knoxville and Asheville.   </B></div> <div> <B>Only one road cuts through the middle of the Park - U.S. 441.  Access is from Gatlinburg on the Tennessee side or Cherokee on the North Carolina side.</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" BGCOLOR="#CCCC66" TEXT="#080000"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#666633" FACE="Arial" >The Trails of Western North Carolina</FONT><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#663399" FACE="Times New Roman" >    </FONT> |    <B> </B><FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#333399" FACE="Times New Roman" ><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Trails of Western North Carolina"><U><B>home</B></U></A></FONT></div> <div> <A HREF="id29.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Pisgah Ranger District"><U>Pisgah Ranger District</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id43.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Stone Mountain State Park"><U>Stone Mountain State Park</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id21.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="South Mountains State Park"><U>South Mountains State Park</U></A>   |   <B>Great Smoky Mountain National Park</B>   |   <A HREF="id37.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Black Mountain Range"><U>Black Mountain Range</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Links Page"><U>Links Page</U></A>   |   <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Appalachian Photo Gallery"><U>Appalachian Photo Gallery</U></A></div> <div> <IMG SRC="04ef0030.gif" border=0 width="496" height="3" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <B>Great Smoky Mountain National Park</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id36.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="AT from Newfound Gap to Charlies Bunion"><U><I><B>AT from Newfound Gap to Charlies Bunion</B></I></U></A></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="0dc25870.jpg" border=0 width="293" height="391" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>View from Appalachian Trail just north of Mount Kephart</B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Photo taken April 23, 2001</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>The Great Smokies offer more than 800 miles of hiking trails.   From heavily crowded tourist areas to remote quiet areas.    Rugged knife edged ridges to splashing Falls and streams.    Two beautiful valleys - the popular and often crowded  Cades Cove on the Tennessee side of the park to the equally beautiful but almost unknown Cataloochee Valley on the North Carolina side.     </B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>The park has wildlife ranging from River Otter, Black Bear, Bobcats, Deer, Russian wild Boar and the newly re-introduced Elk in Cataloochee Valley.    Three kinds of Trout can be found in the streams and more variety of  plants grow in this Park than can be found in ALL of Europe.   The Appalachian Trail follows the crest of the Smokies (basically following the NC-TN state line).</B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>