Great Smoky Mountains National Park
\n<\/strong>“Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. World renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, and the quality of its remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture, this is America’s most visited national park.”
\nHere is the Park website<\/a>.\u00a0 \u00a0 Phone 865-436-1200\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Maps<\/a> \u00a0
\n<\/strong>Trails accessibility information<\/a>
\n<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Hiking In The Smokies.com – difficulty<\/a> has a trail list with difficulty ratings. \u00a0You can see that the rugged Great Smokies offer little in accessibility. \u00a0You might try\u00a0Randy Johnson’s Best Easy Day Hikes guide.
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\n<\/strong>NORTH CAROLINA
\n<\/a>Deep Creek Trail to Tom Branch Falls<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0“The trail begins as a wide path as it traces Deep Creek upstream. The 80-foot Toms Branch Falls is located only three-tenths of a mile from the trailhead. The park service has provided several benches for visitors to admire these beautiful falls, which spill down into the creek from the opposite bank.”<\/p>\n

TENNESEE
\n<\/a>Sugarlands Valley Nature trail is 0.5 mile round trip. \u00a0Reviewed on AllTrails.com<\/a> \u00a0 \u00a0It\u00a0is located on Newfound Gap Road, just south of Sugarlands Visitor Center.
\n<\/a>Spruce Fir Trail<\/a> is 0.35 miles with an elevation gain of just 25′ according to the author of Hiking In The Smokies.com<\/a>.
\nLaurel Falls<\/a>\u00a02.6 miles \u00a0Map<\/a> \u00a0 EveryTrail.com says the trail is paved and is suitable for strollers, but considered ‘moderate” in difficulty. \u00a0“wideopencountry.com<\/a>” warns that the first half is uphill.
\nMetcalf Bottoms Trail<\/a>\u00a0 1.4 miles. \u00a0A short nature hike through the woods to\u00a0Greenbrier School. Map from EveryTrail
\n<\/a><\/a>Middle Prong Trail<\/a> \u00a0 Trip Advisor<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0hikingproject.com<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0 maliasmiles<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a04 miles.\u00a0 The trial is a 12′ wide\u00a0graveled railroad grade\u00a0for the first two miles. \u00a0Descriptions vary for the difficulty after that. \u00a0Video by The Smoky Mountain Hiking Blog<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Great Smoky Mountains National Park “Ridge upon ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. World renowned for its diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, and the quality of its remnants of Southern Appalachian mountain culture, this is America’s most … Continue reading Great Smoky Mountains National Park<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[124,223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-carolina-federal","category-tennessee-federal"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2482"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7855,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2482\/revisions\/7855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.accessiblenature.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}