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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Intersection with Elkmont Road 103.9 (1.0 mile to Elkmont) Townsend 120.9 Kinzel Springs 123.5 (15.0 miles on side road to Cade's Cove) Sunshine 124.0 Walland 128.8 Maryville 139.4 (Intersection #73 and #33) Tenn. #33 Intersection #72 145.4 Tenn. #72 Tallassee Springs 158.9 Chilhowec 162.9 Calderwood (JA mile west) 166.9 Deal's Gap (State line) .177.4 N.C. #108 Tapoco 180.9 Santeetlah Dam 189.8 Robbinsville 200.8 Tulula Gap 210.8 Point Lookout 210.9 Topton (Red Marble Gap) 213.4 (Intersection #10, turn left) N.C. #10 Nantahala Station 217.2 Blowing Springs 220.4 Great Smoky View Sign__227.5 Almond 230.5 Bryson City 241.9 Ela 246.0 Junction with #107 246.9 (5.5 miles over #107 to Cherokee) Whittier 248.8 Junction with #112 250.8 View of Clingman's Dome 251.6 Dillsboro 260.2 Sylva 262.1 Waynesville 281.2 Asheville 312.6 TOUR NUMBER ONE; This scenic loop of 312.6 miles offers the motorist one of the most beautiful trips in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The variety of scenery found on the route leaves little to be desired, for the road leads from the centers of modern life, past swift-flowing mountain rivers, through high gaps and deep gorges, and along the shores of man-made lakes. The tour begins at Asheville and follows Highway No. 10 past Enka, where is situated the huge rayon plant of the American Enka Corporation; Canton, home of the Champion Fibre Company; Lake Junaluska, summer assembly grounds of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South; Waynesville, a noted summer resort; Hazelwood, an industrial community; Balsam Gap, 3,315 feet in altitude, highest standard-gauge railroad point east of the Rockies; Sylva, another industrial 20
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