Tennessee Hiking and Backpacking Vacations

Tennessee Hiking and Backpacking Travel Guide

• Tennessee Overview
• Tennessee Hotels
• Tennessee Attractions
• Tennessee Feature Articles
• Tennessee Vacation Rentals

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Active and Adventure Guide
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• Hiking and Backpacking
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• Family Guide
• Parks and Outdoors Guide
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Top Hiking and Backpacking Destinations In Tennessee

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
  
• Appalachian Trail, ME
  

Travel Guides In Tennessee

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
  • Family Guide
• Memphis, TN
  • Family Guide
• Nashville, TN
  • Family Guide
• Knoxville, TN
  • Family Guide
• Appalachian Trail, ME
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Cherokee National Forest, TN
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Natchez Trace Parkway, MS
  • Active and Adventure Guide

Southeast Hiking and Backpacking States/Provinces

• Arkansas
• Florida
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• North Carolina
• Tennessee
• Virginia

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Moss-covered stream flowing through Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Adam Jones/Photodisc/Getty)

Top Tennessee Hiking and Backpacking Destinations

• Appalachian Trail
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Photos

Feature Articles

• A National Park for All Seasons
  Winter
• Tennessee
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  Great Smoky Mountains National Park
• Great Smoky Mountains
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  The Southeast's Backwoods at its Best
• GORP - Hiking Big South Fork NRRA, Tennessee
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• GORP - Top Picks - Big South Fork NRRA, Tennessee
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Trip Ideas

• Five Great Family Escapes
  100-Mile Wilderness Trail, Maine
• At Home in the Wild
  Civility and wilderness meet at Little Lyford Pond Sport Camps

Practical Advice

• A Trekking Primer
  
• GORP - Getting on Course - Learning Compass and Map Basics
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• Backpacking: A Packing List
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• Day Hiking: A Packing List
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• Adventure Travel 101
  GORPTravel’s Kate Tucker and Linda Long answer our burning questions about the tao of adventure travel

GORPTravel Trips

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  Nantahala Hideway, North Carolina
  Sierra Club Outings
  from $1095, 7 days
  This trip is a lodge-based overview of the Slickrock Wilderness and Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest, both of which lie in the Cheoah Ranger District of...
  

Gear

• Complete Gear Archives: Day-Hiking, Backpacking, and Trekking
  From in-depth gear review articles and Gear Guy Q&A highlights to the latest—and past—entries in Outside magazine’s award-giving Summer and Winter Buyer’s Guides, a detailed overview of all things hiking.
• Women’s Running Gear Essentials
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• Waterproofing Innovations
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  A new way to waterproof
• The Goods: Hiking
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• Mountain Sense
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  Some helpful backcountry tips from mountaineering guru Conrad Anker

Fitness

• Adventure Never Felt So Good
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  Rancho La Puerta
• The Fit List -- cont.
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Attractions

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The Hermitage Hotel
231 Sixth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219 Map

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Carnegie Hotel & Spa
1216 W. State of Franklin Rd.
Johnson City, TN Map

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Best Western Music Row
1407 Division St.
Nashville, TN 37203 Map

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