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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Horace M. Albright Director, National Park Service WELCOME TO THE GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK Saying "welcome" to visitors to our national parks is almost synonymous with "Welcome home", for these areas actually belong to the American people, and we all belong to the outdoors much more than to our present man- made environments. So the National Park Service says "Welcome home' to all visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and urges all who can to go home to Nature this summer, if only for ;i brit f visit. The Great Smokies Park now is, and always will be, primarily a trail region. The automobile can take you to it, and even through it; but to really know it you must get out on the trails, afoot or on horseback. The footpaths and byways lead to a fascinating variety of interesting objectives. Through primitive stands of magnificent hardwoods, through bowers of flaming azalea, rhododendron ami myrtle, along sparkling streams, past waterfalls and into mossy dells they invite the visitor, their ultimate objective often some great mountain peak. A guide adds to the enjoyment of a trip to the Great Smokies wilderness. Such a guide may be a picturesque native mountaineer, or just this little guide-book, of convenient size for slipping in the pocket. George Masa, its co-author, knows and loves the region well. Those fortunate enough to have gone into the woods with him know that any guide-book he may issue will be invaluable. I have spent many days in the Smokies with Mr. Masa and speak from experience. This brief welcoming note would not have been written, for there would have been no park in the Great Smokies, had it not been for the unselfish, wholehearted work done by a group of men and women in North Carolina and Tennessee who have labored for many years to make the Great Smoky Mountains National Park a reality. To them I extend the thanks of a grateful Nation. J. Ross Eakin Superintendent of Park tXZ***" ~Uf, Director, National Park Service. ■zJ
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