It is only half an hour drive from Knoxville, where we spent the night. Green mountains are up to 2000 m high. Entry is free. We started from Sugarland Visitors Center where they have little nature museum where you can get the map and excellent info from the rangers.
Then we started the walk (medium, half an hour walk each way to the Laurel waterfall. Nice! It has two drops 40 feet each. One more waterfall to my collection!
Then we moved to the other area again to take half an hour walk to Grotto Fall – different, but also interesting… Can you imagine – we saw on the wat young bleak bear sleeping on the branches, up on the tree?
It a windy road to the Mountain pass and then on the ridge to the parking lot at the bottom of Clingmans Dome – the most high mountain of the Smokies. There you have 20 minutes to climb to the observation tower. The view is great – you will see that Great Smoky Mts are smoky…
Cherokee village in North Carolina State…
A long ant tiring to drive Skyway Scenic Road took us first to the clouds then down to the valleys. It was already dark, whan we reached Chattanooga…
