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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Preface 7 HE National Park Service has estimated that 154,000 persons visited the Great Smoky Mountains National I'ark in 1931. In the year 1932 it estimated there were 300,000 visitors. Within a few years after the national park has been formally opened, Horace M. Albright, director of the National Park Service, has predicted, the Great Smokies will be drawing from two to three million persons annually. This guide book has been prepared in the hope that it will be of interest and service to some of the thousands of visitors to the national park. In size, the guide book is small enough to slip into a coat pocket so that one may carry it conveniently while in the Great Smokies. The development program for this all-year park is in its infancy. A large program of development, including the establishment of camps and the construction of highways and trails, has been projected. The National Park Service will also inaugurate, at a later date, an educational program. Naturalists will lecture on the flora, fauna, geological formations, and other features of the Great Smokies and guide visitors along the trails. This guide book, however, does not deal with future plans. Its purpose is to give information on what is in the park today. It is hoped it will aid the visitor in acquiring a background for a deep appreciation of the beauties and the wonders of this wilderness area. New editions of the guide book will be issued annually. Copies of this edition may be obtained from Frank A. Barber, The Inland Press, Asheville, N. C.
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