• ENP 6.1: Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Trip Report
  03/28/2018
  Description:
  
  This is episode number 6.1, the first episode in our series on Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Bryan and Danielle reminisce about their first camping trip there in the spring of 2017. Support our show on Patreon. To become a Patron, go to everybodysnationalparks.com. 
  
   
  Discussion includes the following:
   

  • Brief description of our trip (3:40)
  • Cades Cove: Campground, Loop, Visitors Center  (4:28)
  • Whiteoak Sink area from of Schoolhouse Gap Trail to see wildflowers (12:53)
  • Laurel Falls Trail (19:16)
  • Cosby Campground (24:15)
  • First daughter share story of her bike riding accident (25:25)
  • Cataloochee (30:15)
  • 2nd daughter shares biking incident and hiking the Boogerman trail in Cataloochee (31:43)
  • Appalachian Trail at Davenport Gap (35:34)
  • Porters Creek Trail Near Greenbrier Cove (36:44)
  • Rainbow Falls (38:30)
  • Junior Ranger Day at Sugarlands Visitor Center (40:26)
  • Gatlinburg  (43:35)

  
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  CATEGORIES: Great Smoky Mountains, Podcasts
  

Resources

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  
• Cades Cove, NPS
  
• Park Limits Access in Whiteoak Sink Area to Protect Declining Bat Populations (3/28/17)
  
• Whiteoak Sink
  
• Laurel Falls
  
• Cosby Campground
  
• Great Smoky Mountains: Off the Beaten Path
  
• Cataloochee
  
• Boogerman Trail
  
• Great Smoky Mountains: Kid Friendly Hikes
  
• Porters Creek Trail
  
• Rainbow Falls
  
• Great Smoky Mountains: Visitor Centers