Alum Cave Bluff in The Great Smoky Mountains

October 9, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

Hiking to Alum Cave Bluff in the Smoky Mountains was an adventure, just like many of our hikes. The beginning of this trail is flat and goes through and old hardwood forest. Following the Alum Cave Creek for about a mile, we bragged about how easy the trail was and how fast we were going […]

The Cades Cove Bike Ride

May 7, 2019.Reading time 4 minutes.

A Cove is known as a relatively flat valley between mountains or ridges. Cades Cove is in the southern part of the Appalachian Mountain Range and also part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Cades Cove is an 11-mile, one-way loop that winds in the valley where wild life and an old community history […]

Clingmans Dome in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

April 22, 2019.Reading time 3 minutes.

The highest elevation in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is Clingmans Dome standing at 6,643 feet above sea level. This peak straddles two states and is the tallest peak in Tennessee and the third tallest peak in North Carolina. Clingmans Dome is also the highest peak on the 2,174 mile Appalachian Trail that runs […]

Spring in the Smoky Mountains

April 18, 2019.Reading time 2 minutes.

We visited the Smoky Mountains in the spring when the forest was coming to life. During our stay, the renewed plant life in the forest introduced me to more shades of green than I had ever seen in one place. It’s interesting what one notices when visiting a new place. Who would have thought the […]