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Tag: Great Smoky Mountains National Park

The 76th Annual Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage

February 13, 2026 Blue Ridge Dreamer Tennessee

While we are still very much in the quiet, frost-locked grip of winter, my thoughts are already drifting toward the coming thaw. There is a specific kind of restless anticipation

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Biodiversity in Great Smoky Mountains

November 21, 2020 Blue Ridge Dreamer North Carolina, Tennessee

Do you have an hour to kill learning about the natural biodiversity of the Smoky Mountains… This is a good way to spend a rainy winter’s day. Enjoy. I did.

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Ken Burns: Secrets of Great Smoky Mountains National Park

November 6, 2020 Blue Ridge Dreamer North Carolina, Tennessee

Ken Burns sat down with USA TODAY and shared some secrets of America’s national parks. Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan are the creators of the PBS documentary “The National Parks:

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71st Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage

October 29, 2020 Blue Ridge Dreamer Tennessee

Here’s something to look forward to after the coming winter… Go check out the website and pencil it into your calendar. Throughout the long history of the Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage

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Wildflower Pilgrimage

March 27, 2013 Blue Ridge Dreamer Tennessee

The Spring Wildflower Pilgrimage is an annual five-day event in Great Smoky Mountains National Park consisting of a variety of wildflower, fauna, and natural history walks, motorcades, photographic tours, art

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theOutpost: Clingmans Dome Sunrise

December 17, 2012 Blue Ridge Dreamer Tennessee

Clingmans Dome sunrise It’s that time of year – the leaves are changing, the nights are turning cold, and the Smokies are as beautiful as ever.  Today we drove out

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Dan Traveling – Little River Railroad and Lumber Company, Townsend, TN

December 10, 2012 Blue Ridge Dreamer Tennessee

Here’s a neat documentary from the Dan Traveling YouTube channel… A video tour of the Little River Railroad and Lumber Company. Ride down the rails from the Great Smoky Mountains and

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Camping – Great Smoky Mountains National Park

September 9, 2012 Blue Ridge Dreamer Tennessee

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

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