Just another thing to watch out for as you hike around the Appalachians…
A large Timber Rattlesnake calmly slithers across the Cumberland Gap Trail – accessible form the Elkmont Campground area within Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The timber rattler is a notoriously thick rattlesnake and is well camouflaged in the dense understory of the Elkmont area of the Smokies. This rattler is one of two venomous snakes in the Smokies – the other being the copperhead. Encounters are few and far between.
