Appalachian Mountain Dreams

Smoky Mountain Fall

© Great Smoky Mountains Association 2012. The beauty of Cades Cove in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in mid to late October. This lush cove was once a mountain community where farms and family were a way of life. Today an 11-mile road allows visitors to enjoy the beautiful vistas and leisurely pace nestled among the surrounding mountains. Feel

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Camping – Great Smoky Mountains National Park

by mikerhicks The Great Smoky Mountains National Park boasts ten large developed campgrounds with more than a thousand campsites for RVs, trailers, or tent camping, and 100 undeveloped sites. Roanoke Mountain Campground is one of these quaint, quiet little campgrounds located at Milepost 120.4. There are no showers, no hookups, just beautiful little campsites on the Blue Ridge Parkway. Most

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Rosebay In June

Published on Jun 8, 2012 by GreatSmokyMountains Thanks to the warm and very wet winter we had this year, the rosebay rhododendrons are providing us with one of the most spectacular blooms that many folks have ever seen. Rosebay grows beside streams and in shady ravines below elevations of 5,000 feet. Right now the blooms along some trail sides and road sides are

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