We went to the GAP through the Gatlinberg trail during a sunny winter when ice was melting, & I saw the most beautiful things I've seen in my life, cascading waters by the mountain Side, punchbowl falls with snow around, plunging falls in caves, truly breathtaking..thanks for this video, brings back memories.

Go deep into the Balsams, part of the Great Smokys, and that is where we courted. She lived there; schooled in a tiny k-12. Beautiful like her mountains. We courted in mid century, last century. Her family was from Cades Cove. Her family name is on a building in Cullowhee, home of Western Carolina U. Her school taught her well, author, business owner, wife, mother. 60 years married. What a wonderful creature that the Lord created. The Smokys were almost impenetrable back then; no big roads, we traveled slowly behind a pickup or a Florida plate. Up highway 107 we could drive behind a waterfall - a road her mother helped survey. Had to lay her to her rest in 2021. Beautiful mountains. Beautiful girl. Beautiful woman, mother and grandmother.

Thank you for really giving us details that really matter! Love the video💪🏼

Great tips! Thank you!

Great vid. Thanks for sharing.

This list is so helpful for our trip this summer! I have a goal of seeing all the national parks in the US too so I subscribed!! 💕

I’ve been here a dozen times, but you still pointed out things I haven’t seen, thanks!

Quality video, sir 👍 great tips and info!

It was an unexpected surprise when we "herd" the elks bugling.😉

Thanks for taking me along. We hope to go there in 2022. Your filming was great & the info very worthwhile.

Smokey Mountains are awesome, very pretty. Thanks for the video 👍

thank you! very informative

The Smokies are at the top of our list for national parks. We have been to most of the places that you mentioned and hope to make it to the rest. Thanks for sharing. Lynn and Danny

Enjoyed your video, we are going in mid April and will watch this video again. Thank you!!!

You have Definitely Captured the Beauty of the National Park Very Well. Thanks For Sharing

Thank you for sharing! I’m here with my husband and we are planning our hikes 🤗

Excellent video with good tips especially for people who are a little north of 40. We are going in mid June and I appreciate the detail of how strenuous the hikes are as well as the parking situations.

Great photography!

The Sinks is a nice swimming hole in the summer months

Excellent video! I've watched many videos preparing for my visit to Great Smoky Mountain National Park and I have to say this is definitely one of my favorites. Not overly long but full of useful information. Well done! I'm a new subscriber now and look forward to watching more of your videos. I also love visiting national parks, state parks and wildlife refuges as well. I go in the shoulder seasons to avoid crowds and so far that has worked. But I feel COVID put our parks on more people's radar looking for outside safe places to visit so I expect the parks have more visitors now. Thank you for sharing this video!

Thank you for the video and review. I'm surprised that it's top1 by visiting park. Nothing to see compare to Utah, Colorado and so on. Anyway, I'm going to Smoky in 2 weeks. Let's see what happen)

pinoy? Thank you for very informative tour we will be there in JUN 29

Thanks for sharing. I don’t know about other viewers but for us it would be helpful if you could tell us if the trails are dog friendly cause we always bring our dog. I enjoyed watching but found out that none of these trails were dog friendly 😢

Deep Creek and Bryson City are on the south side of park, not eastern

Hello. Could you tell me what month this was filmed? I thought I heard October which is when we are going to see leaves change. But there weren’t leaves changing in this video so I got worried we might be going too early.

My only option is late June. Guess I will face a lot of traffic…

🤔Bull Elk in the Smoky Mountains.... news to me?

Tell your wife here in the Appalachian mountains where we have our own language you can say “elks” if you want to

Is there anything to do with people who can't walk on trails at the park??

Did you see any e-bikes used?

Do you know how steep is the laurel trail compared to the clingman's dome? clingman dome is paved very good but too steep