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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 ( 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. |
