Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains : Comprehensive Guide.
Title:
Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains : Comprehensive Guide.
Author:
Wise, Kenneth.
ISBN:
9781621900689
Personal Author:
Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (540 pages)
Series:
Outdoor Tennessee Series
Contents:
Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Backcountry Campsites and Shelters -- Cosby -- Gabes Mountain Trail -- Low Gap Trail -- Lower Mount Cammerer Trail -- Snake Den Ridge Trail -- Maddron Bald Trail -- Albright Grove Loop Trail -- Greenbrier -- Old Settlers Trail -- Ramsey Cascades Trail -- Porters Creek Trail -- Brushy Mountain Trail -- Grapeyard Ridge Trail -- Mount le Conte -- The Boulevard Trail -- Alum Cave Trail -- Rainbow Falls Trail -- Trillium Gap Trail -- Bull Head Trail -- Baskins Creek Trail -- Twin Creeks Trail -- Sugarlands -- Chimney Tops Trail -- Road Prong Trail -- Old Sugarlands Trail -- Huskey Gap Trail -- Gatlinburg Trail -- Sugarland Mountain Trail -- Elkmont -- Little River Trail -- Goshen Prong Trail -- Rough Creek Trail -- Jakes Creek Trail -- Cucumber Gap Trail -- Meigs Mountain Trail -- Miry Ridge Trail -- Boundary -- Cove Mountain Trail -- Laurel Falls Trail -- Metcalf Bottoms Trail -- Little Brier Gap Trail -- Little Greenbrier Trail -- Roundtop Trail -- Chestnut Top Trail -- Tremont -- Curry Mountain Trail -- Meigs Creek Trail -- Lumber Ridge Trail -- West Prong Trail -- Middle Prong Trail -- Panther Creek Trail -- Greenbrier Ridge Trail -- Lynn Camp Prong Trail -- Whiteoak Sink -- Bote Mountain Trail -- Schoolhouse Gap Trail -- Scott Mountain Trail -- Finley Cane Trail -- Lead Cove Trail -- Turkeypen Ridge Trail -- Crib Gap Trail -- Cades Cove -- Anthony Creek Trail -- Russell Field Trail -- Rich Mountain Loop Trail -- Crooked Arm Ridge Trail -- Indian Grave Gap Trail -- Rich Mountain Trail -- Ace Gap Trail -- Gregory Ridge Trail -- Gregory Bald Trail -- Abrams Falls Trail -- Rabbit Creek Trail -- Wet Bottom Trail -- Hannah Mountain Trail -- Hatcher Mountain Trail -- Cooper Road Trail -- Little Bottoms Trail -- Gold Mine Trail -- Cane Creek Trail -- Beard Cane Trail -- Appalachian Trail.
Mount Cammerer Trail -- Big Creek -- Big Creek Trail -- Chestnut Branch Trail -- Baxter Creek Trail -- Swallow Fork Trail -- Low Gap Trail -- Camel Gap Trail -- Gunter Fork Trail -- Mount Sterling Trail -- Mount Sterling Ridge Trail -- Cataloochee -- Cataloochee Divide Trail -- Caldwell Fork Trail -- Boogerman Trail -- Big Fork Ridge Trail -- McKee Branch Trail -- Rough Fork Trail -- Hemphill Bald Trail -- Pretty Hollow Gap Trail -- Palmer Creek Trail -- Little Cataloochee Trail -- Long Bunk Trail -- Raven Fork -- Flat Creek Trail -- Spruce Mountain Trail -- Balsam Mountain Trail -- Hyatt Ridge Trail -- Beech Gap Trail -- Beech Gap Trail-East -- Enloe Creek Trail -- Hughes Ridge Trail -- Oconoaluftee -- Oconaluftee River Trail -- Mingus Creek Trail -- Newton Bald Trail -- Smokemont Loop Trail -- Bradley Fork Trail -- Chasteen Creek Trail -- Cabin Flats Trail -- Dry Sluice Gap Trail -- Kephart Prong Trail -- Grassy Branch Trail -- Sweat Heifer Creek Trail -- Kanati Fork Trail -- Deep Creek -- Deep Creek Trail -- Juney Whank Falls Trail -- Indian Creek Trail -- Stone Pile Gap Trail -- Deeplow Gap Trail -- Indian Creek Motor Trail -- Thomas Divide Trail -- Cooper Creek Trail -- Loop Trail -- Sunkota Ridge Trail -- Martins Gap Trail -- Pole Road Creek Trail -- Fork Ridge Trail -- Noland Divide Trail -- Noland and Forney Creeks -- Forney Ridge Trail -- Clingmans Dome Bypass Trail -- Noland Creek Trail -- Tunnel Bypass Trail -- Goldmine Loop Trail -- Springhouse Branch Trail -- Whiteoak Branch Trail -- Forney Creek Trail -- Bear Creek Trail -- Jonas Creek Trail -- Lakeshore Trail -- Lakeshore Trail, Eastern Section -- Lakeshore Trail, Western Section -- Hazel Creek -- Hazel Creek Trail -- Jenkins Ridge Trail -- Bone Valley Trail -- Cold Spring Gap Trail -- Welch Ridge Trail -- Eagle Creek and Twentymile -- Eagle Creek Trail -- Lost Cove Trail.
Twentymile Trail -- Wolf Ridge Trail -- Long Hungry Ridge Trail -- Twentymile Loop Trail.
Abstract:
Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains is an essential guide to one of America's most breathtaking and rugged national parks. The second edition of this compellingly readable and useful book is completely updated, giving outdoor enthusiasts the most current information they need to explore this world-renowned wilderness. Included here are facts on more than 125 official trails recognized by the Park Service. Each one has its own setting, purpose, style, and theme, and author Kenneth Wise describes them in rich and vivid detail. For every route, he includes a set of driving directions to the trailhead, major points of interest, a schedule of distances to each one, a comprehensive outline of the trail's course, specifics about where it begins and ends, references to the U.S. Geological Survey's quadrangle maps, and, when available, historical anecdotes relating to the trail. His colorful descriptions of the area's awe-inspiring beauty are sure to captivate even armchair travelers. Organized by sections that roughly correspond to the seventeen major watersheds in the Smokies, Wise starts in Tennessee and moves south into North Carolina, with two major trails-the Lakeshore and the Appalachian-that traverse several watersheds treated independently. Further enhancing the utility of this volume is the inclusion of the Great Smoky Mountains' official trail map as well as an informative introduction filled with details about the geology, climate, vegetation, wildlife, human history, and environmental concerns of the region. A seasoned outdoorsman with more than thirty years of experience in the area and codirector of the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Wise brings an exceptional depth of knowledge to this guide. Both experienced hikers and novices will find this newly revised edition an invaluable
resource for trekking in the splendor of the Smokies. In addition to being codirector of the Great Smoky Mountains Regional Project, Kenneth Wise is associate professor at UTK's John C. Hodges Library, coeditor of Terra Incognita: An Annotated Bibliography of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1544-1934, and coauthor of A Natural History of Mount Le Conte.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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