Great Smoky Mountains National Park

• sits across the Tennessee–North Carolina border

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited of our national parks and draws more than 9 million adventurers and sightseers each year. 

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park protects one of the most diverse ecosystems on the planet.

• 900 miles of superlative trails

• tracts of old-growth forest, views of undulating mountain ridges draped in hazy-blue, "smoky" tendrils of fog.

• The Blue Ridge parkway extends 469 miles along the crests of the Southern Appalachians and
• The Blue Ridge parkway links two eastern national parks--Shenandoah and Great Smoky Mountains
• The Blue Ridge parkway crosses the North Carolina and Virginia state line

• Thirty-nine miles of hiking trails crisscross the steep, uneven landscape
• Hiking trails in the Linville Gorge Wilderness Area are unmarked.
• no bridges across the river.
• Hikers need to have good map and compass skills to avoid getting lost in the sometimes tricky web of footpaths.

W. Kerr Scott Dam and Reservoir

• Recreation area with some Hiking/Interpretive Trails