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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park covers a total of 522,419 acres (816.280 sq mi; 211,415 ha; 2,114.15 km 2) The park is roughly evenly divided between Tennessee and North Carolina, and is located within portions of Blount, Sevier, and Cocke Counties in Tennessee, and Swain and Haywood Counties in North Carolina. [12]
Hikers can stay in an Appalachian Trail style shelter overnight for $8, limited to 12 spots, with a backcountry permit and reservations from the National Park Service. The area was affected by the 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires. The park, including the area around Mt. Le Conte, was evacuated during the disaster.
Spence Field is a mountain highland meadow in the Great Smoky Mountains, located in the Southeastern United States. It has an elevation of 4,920 feet (1,500 m) above sea level. [1] The Appalachian Trail traverses the field, and a backcountry shelter just off the trail provides an overnight stopover for through-hikers.
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We took on the claim that ranked Maine the ultimate U.S. state for national park sites and offer up our reasons why Tennessee is, in fact, No. 1.
The spectacle of synchronous fireflies (Photinus carolinus) has attracted people from all 50 U.S states to visit Elkmont Campground in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.