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Nearby National Parks and Forests
Appalachian National Scenic Trail
The AT bisects the park in a northeast/southwest direction, paralleling the North Carolina/Tennessee border very closely. The official web site of the Appalachian Trail Conference includes information on hiking in North Carolina and Tennessee.Cherokee National Forest
Tennessee's only National Forest, the 620,000-acre Cherokee is separated into two parts by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It includes 170 miles of the Appalachian Trail and more than a thousand species of plants and animals.Nantahala National Forest
Situated in western North Carolina, the area's feature attraction is the river gorge named "Nantahala" (Land of the Noon Day Sun), because the sun penetrates to the bottom of the river gorge only during the middle of the day. The 516,000-acre forest includes a section of the Appalachian Trail, as well as the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, and Whitewater Falls, the highest waterfall in the east.North Carolina National Parks
Includes the Blue Ridge Parkway, the Wright Brothers National Memorial, two national seashores and national historic sites, and others parks.
Pisgah National Forest
The 495,000-acre forest lies in the lies in the mountains of western North Carolina. It features "The Cradle of Forestry," an outdoor museum and monument to the birthplace of scientific forestry in the United States, as well as a section of the Appalachian Trail, and Looking Glass Falls, an unbroken rush of whitewater 30 feet wide and 60 feet high.Tennessee National Parks
Features four Civil War parks, the Natchez Trace Parkway, the Andrew Johnson National Historic site, and others.
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