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Mount Sterling crowns Mount Sterling Ridge, a 7-mile (11 km) ridge that gradually descends northward from the flanks of Big Cataloochee Mountain (on the Balsam Mountain crest) to the Pigeon River valley. The ridge divides the Cataloochee area to the east from the Big Creek Valley (which represents the fringe of the Cosby area) to the west. The ...
The range is sometimes called the Smoky Mountains, and the name is commonly shortened to the Smokies. The Smokies are best known as the home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which protects most of the range. The park was established in 1934 and, with over 11 million visits per year, is the most visited national park in the United States.
The following is a comprehensive list of historical structures located within and maintained by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.Structures at Cades Cove, Roaring Fork, the Noah Ogle Place, and Elkmont are part of U.S. Registered Historic Districts.
Now in its fourth year, the Great Smokies Eco-Adventure experience doubles as a fundraiser for DLiA, funding vital research in the national park. This year’s Eco-Adventure April 21-23 will focus ...
Discover Life in America, which like Smokies Life is a nonprofit partner of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, has catalogued 21,799 species in the park since it launched in 1998, of which ...
Fred Alsop, author of “Birds of the Smokies,” (rereleased in a new edition by Great Smoky Mountains Association in 2023), was guiding a birding tour in Cades Cove on a spring morning in 1989.
To the southwest is the 6,155-foot Big Cataloochee Mountain along the Balsam crest, which runs perpendicular to Sterling Ridge and Cataloochee Divide. Two lower ridges, Noland Mountain and Big Fork Ridge, run parallel between Sterling and the Divide, forming the three valleys.
The highest elevation is the 5,843-foot (1,781 m) summit of Mt. Sterling in the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. The trail crosses various trout rivers along its path including Shallowford Bridge and the Swinging Bridge over the Toccoa River in Georgia, the Ocoee , Hiwassee , Upper Bald and Tellico rivers in Tennessee, and the Little ...