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Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Land of the Everlasting Hills

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  • Ip GOOD ROADS AND FERTILE FIELDS, NEAR TOWNSEND, WITHIN THE PARK AREA - Every Approach to the Park Leads Through Beautiful Scenery HIGHWAYS leading to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park afford not only panoramic distant views of the mountains from many points, but pass through sections of the adjacent territory that are sufficiently beautiful and varied to alone make it well worth while to travel a long way to see them. Some beautiful old homes, many of them more than a hundred years old, stand along the state-maintained highways which at one time were stage-coach roads. From every farm home a glimpse of the towering Smokies or a stretch of fertile valley and timbered ridge land can be seen. Great fields of corn, wheat, tobacco or other farm products, grazing lands dotted with cattle, numerous poultry farms and other signs of modern agricultural development evidence the industrious character of the people and provide a foretaste of the wonderful view of the natural beauty of the entire region, which reaches its culmination in the outlook from the top of any of a large number of peaks in the Park at an altitude of five thousand to nearly seven thousand feet above sea level. So, a trip from any direction to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park affords many pleasant surprises and never a moment of monotony after the visitor comes within fifty to a hundred miles of the Smokies. MONTVALE STRINGS, AT THE BOUNDARY OF THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
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