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Trailside Talk: The Wonder of Falling Water
The Smokies have waterfalls, dozens of them. Tall, wide, swift, slow. You can find them on the roadside and deep in the Smokies wilderness.
Laurel Falls Cascades. GSMA Archives.
Walking to a beautiful waterfall is the objective of many Smokies hikers. The hike is often its own reward, but to round a corner in the forest,
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Image for the Asking: A Reflection on the Nature of Things
Story and image by Don McGowan
It is so tempting, given the amazing literal beauty of the geography of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, to become a photographic documentarian of these wonderful mountains and valleys, complete with their complex, diverse array of life forms and habitats. To do this, however, would be, in my humble opinion,
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Trailside Talk: Water Up, Water Down
What is it about flowing water that so many of us find so mesmerizing and magnetic?
The sound? The movement? The fall over a precipice to a pool below? The eternal pounding against rocks that become imperceptibly smoother by the moment?
Whatever the attraction, the Smokies—and, by happy extrapolation, Smokies visitors—are blessed
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2020: A Great Year for Waterfalls and Mushrooms
By Steve Kemp
Based on the heavy flow of waterfalls and the plethora of mushrooms on trails, you might guess this has been a rainy year in the Great Smoky Mountains.
You are correct! According to Jim Renfro, the park’s air quality specialist and de facto meteorologist, 2020 has been the wettest year on record thus far at Newfound Gap
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