Explorer's Guide Blue Ridge and Smoky Mountains

by Hargan, Jim

• ISBN13: 9780881509687
• ISBN10: 088150968X
• Edition: 4th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-06-04
• Publisher: Countryman Press

Summary

In a new, updated edition, this comprehensive guide offers full coverage of both sides of the TennesseeNorth Carolina divide. Spend some time in the woods in two of the most popular national parks in the country-Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Blue Ridge Parkway. You'll find the best scenic drives, boating, horseback riding, fishing, rock climbing, skiing, and golf, and great local produce, crafts, music, historic homes, and museums in brick-fronted downtowns and bucolic artists' colonies.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
What's Where in the Smokies and the Blue Ridge Mountains
Exploration Themes	p. 28
Author's Favorite Trips: A Week in the Mountains	p. 41
The Northern Mountains	p. 45
The Blue Ridge Parkway Enters North Carolina	p. 48
The Blue Ridge Parkway: Blowing Rock & Grandfather Mountain	p. 64
Behind The Blue Ridge: Boone & Banner Elk	p. 88
Behind The Blue Ridge: Spruce Pine & Burnsville	p. 106
The Mountains Of Northern Tennessee	p. 123
Beneath The Blue Ridge: The Catawba River Valley	p. 141
AshevilleÆs Mountains	p. 161
The Blue Ridge Parkway Circles Asheville	p. 165
The City of Asheville	p. 181
The Blue Ridge Parkway Approaches the Smokies	p. 211
The Blue Ridge: Chimney Rock & Saluda	p. 228
The Blue Ridge: Hendersonville & Brevard	p. 249
North Of Asheville: The Bald Mountains	p. 270
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park	p. 287
Gatlinburg & The Northeast Quadrant	p. 293
Townsend, Cades Cove, & The Northwest Quadrant	p. 316
Bryson City & The Southwest Quadrant	p. 340
Cherokee & The Southeast Quadrant	p. 358
South of the Smokies	p. 379
Near The Park: Sylva & Dillsboro	p. 383
The Blue Ridge: Cashiers & Highlands	p. 398
Franklin & The Nantahala Mountains	p. 420
The Northern Unicois: Robbinsville & Tellico Plains	p. 439
The Southern Unicois: Murphy & The Copper Basin	p. 462
Index	p. 485
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