The Great Smoky Mountains National Park (East of Townsend, Tn.)
Little River is a river in Tennessee which drains a 380-square-mile (980 km2) area containing some of the most spectacular scenery in the southeastern United States. The first 18 miles (29 km) of the river are all located within the borders of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The remaining 33 miles (53 km) flow out of the mountains through Blount County to join the Tennessee River at Stock Creek and Fort Loudon Lake in Knox County.
From just below Elkmont, the Little River runs parallel to State Route 73, also known as Little River Road, which connects the two major Tennessee entrances to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: those in Gatlinburg and Townsend. The stream, like the road that follows it, is quite sinuous. The road is built on the bed of the Little River Railroad that was used for logging purposes prior to the establishment of the park.
Little River at Metcalf Bottoms
Along the course of Little River are several small waterfalls which feed into the river, which especially strong during wet weather. One waterfall, Meigs Falls, is visible from the road and is provided with a parking turnout. Additionally, there are parking turnouts for trails leading to numerous places. About midway between Gatlinburg and Townsend, Little River enters a relatively flat area known as Metcalf Bottoms, which developed along an oasis of soft phyllite amidst the more predominant sandstone. The park service has established a picnic area at Metcalf Bottoms, providing an attractive area for summer picnics and wading.
Just past Metcalf Bottoms, Little River becomes more rapid and volatile as it slices through Little River Gorge, a narrow valley between Round Top Mountain and Curry She Mountain. Among the gorge's more notable landmarks is an area known as The Sinks. The Sinks is where the river flows over a ten foot (three meters) waterfall into a large pool, and then seems to disappear for a small distance. (Unlike streams in a limestone area, which may actually sink for a considerable distance, this is more a question of appearance than of the stream truly sinking, which is not feasible in this area of ancient Precambrian metamorphic rock.) Below the Sinks, Little River is navigable in high water with a canoe or kayak.
Walker Sisters still fascinate in the Smokies
Every week, Robin Goddard unpacks history for visitors at Little Greenbrier School in the Smokies. She particularly loves sharing the stories of the Walker Sisters she learned about as a child.
Old Cades Cove Road, Rich Mountain Tn
Trip to Townsend Tn for British Car Show.
Smoky Mountain Bear Cades Cove
While walking in the Cades Cove area of Great Smoky Mountain National Park, we visit one of ol' Smoky's kin.
Little Green Briar School, Smoky Mountains, Tennessee
The Little Green Briar School is located in the Smoky Mountains. It was founded about 1909 and has a graveyard adjacent to the school that has mostly little children buried in it.
Grotto Falls Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Take a hike with us to see one of the most beautiful falls in GSMNP.
Metcalf Overlook, Unicoi County, Tennessee
Located on Interstate 26, within a mile or so of the North Carolina border.
Cades Cove, TN
A small stream works its way through the Smokey Mountains as colorful leaves fall from the forest canopy into the stream.
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park : West Prong Little River
This site is located at a pulloff with access to parking area. You can see this bridge looking from the south end of the site. You can hike here and picnic. There is swimming and rock jumping allowed to the public.
Smokey Mountains National Park:West Prong Little River
From just below Elkmont, the Little River runs parallel to State Route 73, also known as Little River Road, which connects the two major Tennessee entrances to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: those in Gatlinburg and Townsend. The stream, like the road that follows it, is quite sinuous. The road is built on the bed of the Little River Railroad that was used for logging purposes prior to the establishment of the park.
Little River at Metcalf Bottoms
Along the course of Little River are several small waterfalls which feed into the river, which especially strong during wet weather. One waterfall, Meigs Falls, is visible from the road and is provided with a parking turnout. Additionally, there are parking turnouts for trails leading to numerous places. About midway between Gatlinburg and Townsend, Little River enters a relatively flat area known as Metcalf Bottoms, which developed along an oasis of soft phyllite amidst the more predominant sandstone. The park service has established a picnic area at Metcalf Bottoms, providing an attractive area for summer picnics and wading.
Just past Metcalf Bottoms, Little River becomes more rapid and volatile as it slices through Little River Gorge, a narrow valley between Round Top Mountain and Curry She Mountain. Among the gorge's more notable landmarks is an area known as The Sinks. The Sinks is where the river flows over a ten foot (three meters) waterfall into a large pool, and then seems to disappear for a small distance. (Unlike streams in a limestone area, which may actually sink for a considerable distance, this is more a question of appearance than of the stream truly sinking, which is not feasible in this area of ancient Precambrian metamorphic rock.) Below the Sinks, Little River is navigable in high water with a canoe or kayak.
Continuing to follow TN 73 the stream crosses into Blount County en route to its confluence with Middle Prong of Little River at an area known as the Townsend Y.
Laurel Creek, which drains the White Oak Sink area, joins the West Prong, which drains the area beneath Spence Field. The West Prong then joins the Middle Prong a mile east of the Townsend Y at the junction of Tremont Road and Laurel Creek Road.
Only the stream below the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is navigable by kayak in high water. Fishing along Middle Prong is considered excellent.
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park : West Prong Little River
This site is located at a pulloff with access to parking area. You can see this bridge looking from the south end of the site. You can hike here and picnic. There is swimming and rock jumping allowed to the public. Smokey Mountains National Park:West Prong Little River
From just below Elkmont, the Little River runs parallel to State Route 73, also known as Little River Road, which connects the two major Tennessee entrances to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: those in Gatlinburg and Townsend. The stream, like the road that follows it, is quite sinuous. The road is built on the bed of the Little River Railroad that was used for logging purposes prior to the establishment of the park.
Little River at Metcalf Bottoms
Along the course of Little River are several small waterfalls which feed into the river, which especially strong during wet weather. One waterfall, Meigs Falls, is visible from the road and is provided with a parking turnout. Additionally, there are parking turnouts for trails leading to numerous places. About midway between Gatlinburg and Townsend, Little River enters a relatively flat area known as Metcalf Bottoms, which developed along an oasis of soft phyllite amidst the more predominant sandstone. The park service has established a picnic area at Metcalf Bottoms, providing an attractive area for summer picnics and wading.
Just past Metcalf Bottoms, Little River becomes more rapid and volatile as it slices through Little River Gorge, a narrow valley between Round Top Mountain and Curry She Mountain. Among the gorge's more notable landmarks is an area known as The Sinks. The Sinks is where the river flows over a ten foot (three meters) waterfall into a large pool, and then seems to disappear for a small distance. (Unlike streams in a limestone area, which may actually sink for a considerable distance, this is more a question of appearance than of the stream truly sinking, which is not feasible in this area of ancient Precambrian metamorphic rock.) Below the Sinks, Little River is navigable in high water with a canoe or kayak.
Continuing to follow TN 73 the stream crosses into Blount County en route to its confluence with Middle Prong of Little River at an area known as the Townsend Y.
Laurel Creek, which drains the White Oak Sink area, joins the West Prong, which drains the area beneath Spence Field. The West Prong then joins the Middle Prong a mile east of the Townsend Y at the junction of Tremont Road and Laurel Creek Road.
Only the stream below the Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont is navigable by kayak in high water. Fishing along Middle Prong is considered excellent.
Big Greenbrier with Mike Maples (Part Three)
The Whaley Settlement of Big Greenbrier is introduced in this video about this mountain community inside the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. I take us up the road below today's picnic area up to the main bridge and the heart of Big Greenbrier.
Educational Video.
Michael Hearon - Blount County, TN - Missing Great Smoky National State Park
Each week we cover mysterious cases of true crime, mysterious disappearances, and unsolved mysteries.
Austin Bohanan, 18, was reported missing around 8 p.m. on Sunday, August the 13th. He was last seen hiking off-trail in a remote southwest corner of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the evening of Friday, August the 11th.
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Tennessee Family Vacation
Come along as we travel to Tennessee for a family vacation. Renting a mountain cabin and doing activities like Dollywood and Great Smokey Mountains National Park. Swim at Metcalf Bottoms and and a bike ride in Cades Cove. Hike to Laura falls and do a second bike ride up Tower Road to WIvk-FM radio tower outside of Pigeon Forge.
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David Szesztay, Lady Alright,
Ketsa, Whats Just Remastered,
David Szesztay, Fishing,
Shake that Little Foot, Western Country,
Jason Shaw, Running Waters'
Broke For Free, Something Elated,
Antony Raijekov, By the Coast 2004,
Dolly Parton, My Tennessee Mountain Home,
Exploring the Walker Sisters Haunted Cabin in the Smoky Mountains!
Treasure Hunter / Explorer Ed Huffman and his Crew explore a real haunted Walker Sisters log cabin deep in the Mountains!
Today we're in the Smoky Mountains and I thought it would be a great adventure to take my treasure hunting crew and family on a day hike to a real haunted house. This house/log cabin has had paranormal investigators here and they have confirmed it is a real haunted house.
In the 1940s and 1950s, visitors to the Little Greenbrier section of the park were greeted by the Walker Sisters. These were 6 sisters who lived in a log cabin in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
A spinning wheel with yarn in an old cabin.
The Walker Sisters spent their entire lives in a cabin in Little Greenbrier Cove that was built by their grandfather in the 1840s.
The old house was built in the 1840s and there was 11 children that grew up in the house. Four brothers and 7 sisters. As the boys grew older pretty much left the house but the seven girls known as the Walker Sisters one got married and left and six of the girls all sisters you know stayed in the log cabin pretty much their entire life and they live to be about early look they made it to a ballot you know at the age of 90 92 but their entire life they actually lived in this one area never left even when the National Park came about in the 1930s they tried to force them out as they did with all the other people who lived in the park.
But these sisters would not would not budge they wanted to continue to live there and live the way of the mountain life and even up until the 1930s and 40s they were still living like they were in the 1800s no electricity no running water they made their clothes from the sheep's wool where they had sheep they survived
off the land so the deal was the park the National Park agreed to let them stay.
We just toured the entire property in-house and this at one time there was 13 people who lived here but the mom and dad and the mother and father and 11 children they made it we explored the old hunting cabin back in the woods and it was very peaceful I wouldn't really say it's haunted you know we didn't see anything today unless the camera catches something that we just we just didn't see but the feeling is very peaceful and it's a very beautiful place highly recommended you're in this area in the like Pigeon Forge Gatlinburg area to go explore.
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Abrams Falls, Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
Abrams Falls, Cades Cove, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN. Shot 4/26/17
Hiking in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Little Greenbier Trail
Little Greenbier Trail is located in the Metcalf Bottoms area of Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Spring wild flowers.
cades cove rock jumping gatlinburg part 2
Rock jumping in gatlinburg. Just visted cades cove.
Hellbenders in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Dr. Michael Freake, Lee University, has been studying the Hellbender salamanders in Great Smoky Mountains National Park for years. His research shows a healthy population on the Tennessee side of the park and a puzzling population on the North Carolina side of the Smokies. Many of the North Carolina park rivers have yielded either no Hellbenders or just a few old adults during snorkeling surveys. It doesn’t appear that there is a reproducing population. Only further research will help untangle the mystery as to what is happening with the Smokies Hellbender populations.
Benny's 14th Birthday Camping Trip
Camping in the Smoky mountains, hiking Chimney Tops Trail (off HWY 441 south of Gatlinburg, Tennessee. Swimming in a chilly mountain stream... lots of smiles, memories and fun! Amazing how much 4 teenage boys can EAT!
Abrams Falls
Join us on a hike to Abrams Falls in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park.