Table of Contents
Introduction 11
Using This Guide 12
How I Photograph the Smokies 15
The Northeast Quadrant 27
I Gatlinburg 28
1 Downtown Gatlinburg 28
2 Crafters of the Glades 29
3 Overlooks on the Gatlinburg Bypass 30
4 Bud Ogle Place, Cherokee Orchards 31
5 Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail 31
6 Jim Bales Place 33
7 Ephraim Bales Place 33
8 Alfred Regan Place 33
9 Place of a Thousand Drips 33
10 Rainbow Falls 34
11 Baskins Falls 34
12 Grotto Falls 34
II Newfound Gap Road: Tennessee 35
13 Sugarlands Visitor Center 35
14 Campbell Overlook 36
15 Chimney Tops Trail 37
16 Alum Cave Trail 38
17 Mount Le Conte 38
18 Morton Overlook 38
19 Newfound Gap 39
20 Charlie's Bunion 39
III The Smoky Mountain Front 41
21 Porters Flats 41
22 Ramsay Cascades 42
23 Albright Grove 42
24 Cosby Park Road 43
25 Lower Mount Cammerer Trail 43
26 Foothills Parkway East 43
IV Big Creek 45
27 Big Creek Picnic Area 46
28 Midnight Hole 46
29 Mouse Creek Falls 47
30 Brakeshoe Spring 47
31 Waterville 47
The Southeast Quadrant 49
V Cherokee 51
32 Town of Cherokee 51
33 Oconaluftee Islands Tribal Park 52
34 Oconaluftee Indian Village 52
35 Mingo Falls 53
VI Blue Ridge Parkway 55
36 Start of the Parkway 56
37 Mile High Overlook 56
38 Balsam Recreation Area 57
VII Newfound Gap Road: North Carolina 59
39 Mountain Farm Museum 60
40 Mingus Mill 61
41 Rapids of the Oconaluftee River 62
42 Thomas Divide 62
43 Oconoluftee Valley Overlook 62
44 Clingmans Dome Spur Road 62
45 Clingmans Dome 63
46 Andrews Bald 63
47 Silers Bald 63
VIII Cataloochee Cove 64
48 Palmer House 65
49 Will Messer Barn 67
50 Palmer Chapel and Beech Grove School 67
51 Caldwell House and Barn 67
52 Woody House 67
53 Hannah Cabin 67
54 Little Cataloochee Church 67
55 Cook Place 67
The Northwest Quadrant 69
IX Townsend 70
56 Little River 70
57 Little River Railroad and Lumber Company Museum 71
58 Dry Valley 71
59 Foothills Parkway West 71
X The Little River Gorge 73
60 Tremont Logging Camp 74
61 The Y 75
62 The Sinks 75
63 Metcalf Bottoms 75
64 Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse 75
65 Walker Sisters Cabin 75
66 Elkmont National Historic District 76
67 Laurel Falls 77
XI Cades Cove 79
68 Horse Meadow 81
69 John Oliver Cabin 81
70 Primitive Baptist Church 81
71 Methodist Church 81
72 Missionary Baptist Church 81
73 Hayfields 81
74 Elijah Oliver Cabin 81
75 Cable Mill Area 81
76 Henry Whitehead Cabin 81
77 Dan Lawson Place 82
78 Tipton Place 82
79 Carter Shields Cabin 82
80 Hyatt Lane 82
81 Rich Mountain Road 83
82 Parsons Branch Road 83
The Southwest Quadrant 85
XII Bryson City 87
83 Old County Courthouse 87
84 Great Smoky Mountains Railroad 88
85 Bryson City Cemetery 88
86 Head of Fontana Lake 88
87 Nantahala Gorge 88
88 Deep Creek Waterfalls 88
89 The Road to Nowhere 88
90 Noland Creek Trail 90
XIII The Fontana Area 93
91 Lake Fontana Views 93
92 Lake Cheoah 93
93 Cheoah Dam 96
94 Fontana Dam 96
95 Twentymile 96
