Hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

 

 

 

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Liz Etnier

 

Mike Etnier

 

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Favorite Web Sites

 

There are several excellent sites that give information about hiking in the the GRSM. Yoursmokies.com gives information on hiking, biking, horseback riding, and fishing in the Smokies, and has a store that displays many relevant books for the area. This site also gives weather updates, information on road closings, trail information, etc.

 

Hikinginthesmokys.com gives invaluable information on hiking in the Park, as well as listing over 70 trails with location, special features, and level of difficulty given for each trail. This site also has a "hiking and gear" store with many links to available books.

 

These sites also have information on rental cabins at all the gateway communities, as well as links to information on each gateway community and other nearby towns, as does a site called American Mountain rentals.

 

The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), a project of Discover Life in America (DLIA), seeks to inventory the estimated 100,000 species of living organisms in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As of January, 2010 DLIA's ATBI Program has resulted in the identification of 907 species new to science. Plus, in just over a decade we have coordinated the discovery of 6,582 more species previously known to exist, but not known to inhabit the Park.

Cades Cove guided tours are now available where up to 19 people can ride in a comfortable handicapped accessible mini-bus offered by Heritage Tours. Visit the Heritage Center tour web site (A non profit organization) for further information.

If you like to bike ride, Elle Colquitt and Jon Livengood have written a book with maps and cue sheets for bicycling in the Knoxville area, as well as another for mountain bike riding in various parts of E. Tennessee.

 

Smoky Mountains current conditions and webcam

 

Check out the Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine web site

 

If you like to do counted cross stitch, and love wildflowers, you should look at the link for this new book

 

 

 

A checklist of birds of the Smokies can be found at http://www.nps.gov/grsm/naturescience, and click on animals, birds, and checklist.