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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. Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an American national park in the southeastern United States, with parts in Tennessee and North Carolina. The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great
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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: America’s Best Idea,” available via ShopPBS.org.
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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 in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park (SWFP GSMNP), the underlying mission and philosophy has simply been to bring people together to fellowship, form connections, bonds, and friendships through a common interest
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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 classes, and indoor seminars. Most programs are outdoors in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, while indoor offerings are held in various venues throughout Gatlinburg, TN. Join us for the Spring
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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 before dawn (it was about 30 degrees and very windy in the higher elevations) to catch sunrise at Clingmans Dome. Us, and a bunch of other people! The mountains are
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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 see the places and hear the stories about this golden era in East Tennessee history. The Little River Lumber Company and the Little River Railroad operate a museum in Townsend,
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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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I found this on YouTube…Enjoy.
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I wondered across this video over on YouTube today…Check it out. Revitalize your Coexistence with Nature’s Realm! A nature music video from the creators of “Expedition Nature’s Realm: A Documentary Film.” www.TEMPESTASPRODUCTIONS.com. Copyright 2009 by CDCraig and KHJeanes.
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© Great Smoky Mountains Association 2012. Waterfalls are one of the Smoky Mountains most prominent features. Over 100 prominent cascades and waterfalls can be found in the park, and this podcast showcases some of those places. Feel free to embed or link to our videos on your website or blog as long as you include this copyright notice: “© GSMA
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