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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • CAMPING Camping in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is growing in popularity each year. The late Horace Kephart, dean of American campers, is authority for the statement that the Great Smoky Mountains constitute ideal camping country. He• said: "The Smoky Mountains have enticing camping sites in clean and alluring solitudes, under the shade of giant trees, near gushing streams of the purest water on earth, the ground everywhere carpeted with flowers and ferns and moss, in a cool climate where no mosquito ever bothers a camper by day or night. "The climate is one of the most equable and healthful in the world. The rainfall is abundant but not excessive. Temperature, in the Smokies, is simply a matter of how high up you go. One can choose for himself. At any elevation above 4,000 feet one sleeps under blankets the year round." Although the permanent camps for motorists have not Camping at Three Forks in the Great Smokies. 59
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