Author Description

This new guide to the nation's most popular national park contains all the information you need to explore this last vestige of virgin forest. A naturalist's wonderland, The Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers the best camping and hiking east of the Mississippi, with easy access, maintained trails and campsites, and some of the most spectacular scenery in the United States. Lee Barnes, a veteran hiker and camper, offers the insight and experience of a lifetime spent in and near the park; insight gained through his education as a botanist and educator, and through miles and miles of hiking in the mountains of his native north Carolina. Join Lee as he takes you mile by mile, town by town, vista by vista through the largest undeveloped forest in the southern Appalachians while sharing his love of the outdoors through the pages of this book.