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Oconaluftee Visitor Center near the eastern entrance to the park. The Oconaluftee is the valley of the Oconaluftee River in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. Formerly the site of a Cherokee village and an Appalachian community, the valley is now North Carolina's main entrance to Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The Oconaluftee River [4] drains the south-central Oconaluftee valley of the Great Smoky Mountains in Western North Carolina before emptying into the Tuckasegee River.The river flows through the Qualla Boundary, a federal land trust that serves as a reserve for the Eastern Band of the Cherokee, the only federally recognized tribe in North Carolina.
Oconaluftee River; Nantahala River; Cullasaja River; French Broad River. Nolichucky River. Cane River; North Toe River. ... Elk River; Kanawha River (WV) New River ...
Other major streams include Hazel Creek and Eagle Creek in the southwest, Raven Fork near Oconaluftee, Cosby Creek near Cosby, and Roaring Fork near Gatlinburg. The Little Tennessee River passes through five impediments along the range's southwestern boundary, namely Tellico Lake, Chilhowee Lake, Calderwood Lake, Cheoah Lake, and Fontana Lake.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Great Smoky Mountains National Park.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, North Carolina and Tennessee, United States.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a national park of the United States in the southeast, with parts in North Carolina and Tennessee.The park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain.
Oconaluftee River in Cherokee. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Swain county has a total area of 540.25 square miles (1,399.2 km 2), of which 527.73 square miles (1,366.8 km 2) is land and 12.52 square miles (32.4 km 2) (2.32%) is water. [5] The county is located in far Western North Carolina in the Great Smoky Mountains.
Cherokee is located in the Oconaluftee River Valley around the intersection of U.S. Routes 19 and 441. As of the 2020 census , the CDP had a population of 2,195. It is the capital of the federally recognized Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians , one of three recognized Cherokee tribes and the only one in North Carolina.