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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. Another nice site is www.southernscenicphotography. The All Taxa Biodiversity Inventory (ATBI), a
project of Discover Life in America ( 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 If you like to
do counted cross stitch, and love wildflowers, you should look at the link
for this 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. |
