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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park, the United States’ most visited national park, straddles the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. The Great Smoky Mountains offer quality historical remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture. Nine hundred miles of maintained hiking trails including the most popular part of the Appalachian Trail offer a great way to enjoy plant and wildlife. Abundant photography opportunities, for both amateur and professional exist in every season. Anglers have over 2000 miles of rivers, creeks and streams for fishing. Fly Fishing has become a favorite for the Smoky Mountains. Backcountry and front country camping facilities are available for those wanting to escape the rush of everyday life. Spend time horseback riding with your own horse or rent from a local establishment. Picnicking is a great way to enjoy a day trip in the park. Bicycling Cades Cove is an adventurous way to spend a day. Auto tours are magnificent during peak fall colors. The Great Smoky Mountains is a world-renowned preserve of wildflowers. Over 1,660 kinds of flowering plants are found in the Great Smoky Mountains, more than in any other North American national park. From the earliest hepaticas and spring-beauties in the late winter to showy rhododendron and azalea shrubs in summer, to the last asters in the late fall, blooming flowers can be found year-round in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Lodging in the Smoky Mountains can be the best way to visit here. There are many opportunities to stay in the Smoky Mountains from renting a cabin or chalet deep in the heart of the mountains, to renting a five star hotel room at one of our local hotels right in the middle of Pigeon Forge or Gatlinburg.
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Smoky Mountain History
Great Smoky Mountains National Park sits astride the Tennessee–North Carolina border amid the majestic southern climax of the Appalachian Highlands. The most visited of our national parks draws more than 9 million adventurers and sightseers each year. And for good reason — the Smokies are within a day's drive of a third of the U.S. population, and very few places in the East are in their league as an outdoor-recreation destination.
The Great Smoky Mountains
Worm your way into these rugged, convoluted mountains and you'll find 900 miles of superlative trails, tracts of old-growth forest, views of undulating mountain ridges draped in hazy-blue, "smoky" tendrils of fog, and vivid reminders of the folkways of the Appalachians' early pioneers.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park protects one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet, a place that supports more than 4,000 species of plants, 130 trees, 65 mammals, 230 birds, and more species of salamanders than are found anywhere else on earth.
Congress established the park in 1934, and its importance is now recognized around the world as an International Biosphere Reserve and World Heritage Site.
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