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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Smokies Trip Planner
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Download a copy of the Smokies Trip Planner (622 kb file)
The Smokies Trip Planner is the official trip planning guide to Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It contains information about:
Favorite destinations in the park including
- Cades Cove
- Cataloochee
- Clingmans Dome
- Roaring Fork
- and others
Popular activities such as
- auto touring
- bicycling
- family campgrounds
- fishing
- hiking and backpacking
- picnicking
- waterfall walks
- wildlife watching
- and more
General information including
- weather and climate
- lodging and camping
- park map
Download a copy of the Smokies Trip Planner (622 kb file)
The Smokies Trip Planner is a PDF file that is 609 kb in size. You will need a free copy of Acrobat Reader to access the file.
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Fall Leaf Season
Fall colors can be seen from October through early November in the park.
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Fishing in the Park
The park offers a wide variety of angling experiences for fishermen.
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Elk
Elk were reintroduced to the park in 2001.
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Historic Buildings
Nearly 80 historic structures—homes, barns, churches, schools, and mills—are preserved in the park.
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Did You Know?
The park’s high elevation heath balds are treeless expanses where dense thickets of shrubs such as mountain laurel, rhododendron, and sand myrtle grow. Known as “laurel slicks” and “hells” by early settlers, heath balds were most likely created by forest fires long ago.
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Last Updated: December 19, 2007 at 13:18 EST |
