The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is located between Tennessee and North Carolina, and is the most visited national park in the United States with more than 9 million vacationers and nature enthusiasts coming to the park every year. Given the more than 2,000 miles of streams that traverse the landscape of the park and the [...]
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Children are welcome on the Alum Cave Bluff hiking trail, although some might get tired on such a trek, so be prepared to carry them if you have to. Once you get about a mile into the trail, you’ll find a log and boulder remains from a flash flood and landslide that occurred in 1993 [...]
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The Alum Cave Bluff hiking trail in The Great Smoky Mountains National Park can be accessed quite easily. All you do is take the Newfound Gap Road from the Sugarlands Visitor Center, just inside the park entrance from Gatlinburg, TN, about 8.6 miles.
You’ll find two parking areas here, as well as a gravel path that [...]
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