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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • mountain climbed by Horace Kephart after he arrived in N. C. Hughes Ridge: From Smokemont, N. ('. Drive car up j Bradley Fork road from Smokemont, then up road along! Chasteen Creek for about l/2 mile. Leave car and take trail! up Chasteen Creek to Hughes Ridge. Return may be by trail northwestward along Hughes Ridge, then to Long Ridge and j down Taywa Creek to automobile road along Bradley Fork, j Distances: up Chasteen Creek to ridge, 3.25 miles; along I Hughes Ridge, 2.5; down Tavwa Creek to Bradlev Fork | road, 3.0 miles. Class B 'Trail; fair. Indian Gap: On State line. ^^ (1) Appalachian Trail. Park cars at Newfound Gapj and follow trail over shoulder of Mt. Mingus. Trail is I steep. Distance, 1.4; from Indian Gap, around road to | Newfound Gap, 2.0 miles. (2) See Deep Creek, Trail No. 2. I .^) From Tenn. #71. Trail starts at mouth of Roau Prong of Little Pigeon River, and goes up Road Prong to J Indian Gap. Distance, 4 miles. Kephart. Mt.: On State line. (1) From Newfound Gap. Class A Frail extends east-l ward from Gap along State line 2.45 miles to Mt. Ambler. Prom Mt. Ambler to Mt. Kephart. 0.75 mile on good foot trail. * I 2) See Appalachian Trail. (3) From Mt. LeConte via The Boulevard. (Mas- A Trail. Distance, 5.37 miles. (4) See Dry Sluice Gap and Richland Mountain. Jump-Off, on Tenn. side of Mt. Kephart, is a precipitoi place, offering wonderful views. East side of cliff drops | vertically about 500 ft., then almost vertically 1 .(100 ft. Laurel Falls: Leave cars at Elkmont,' Tenn. Trail up Laurel Branch to Laurel Falls. First mile, easy hiking c old road. Then trail becomes rough, going by "Devil Chute." Not far beyond this are the falls. Round trip.j 5 miles. 50
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