Tennessee Hiking and Backpacking Travel Guide

Tennessee Hiking and Backpacking Travel Guide

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Top Hiking and Backpacking Destinations In Tennessee

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
  

Travel Guides In Tennessee

• Appalachian Trail - Tennessee, ME
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN
  • Parks and Outdoors Guide
  • Family Guide
  • Active and Adventure Guide
• Memphis, TN
  • Family Guide
• Nashville, TN
  • Family Guide
• Chattanooga, TN
• Alcoa, TN
• Brentwood, TN
• Clarksville, TN
• Cookeville, TN
• Crossville, TN

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

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Photos

Feature Articles

• 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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• A National Park for All Seasons
  Winter

Trip Ideas

• Five Great Family Escapes
  John Muir Trail, Tennessee/Kentucky

Practical Advice

• Adventure Travel 101
  GORPTravel’s Kate Tucker and Linda Long answer our burning questions about the tao of adventure travel
• Day Hiking: A Packing List
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• Backpacking: A Packing List
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• GORP - Recovering from a Dislocated Joint - Dislocated Joints in the Backcountry
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• GORP - Dislocated Knee - Dislocated Joints in the Backcountry
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Gear

• Osprey Exos 46 Backpack
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• Women's Hiking
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• Therm-a-Rest ProLite 3 and Trekker Chair
  The best sleeping pad and chair-maker
• The Gear You Need: Mountain Trekking in Peru
  Save for dense snow cover and crampon-required icefields, if you’re looking to outfit yourself for trekking in places like the Peruvian Andes, we’ve got the goods.
• 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.

Fitness

• America's Best Cities: Charlotte, North Carolina
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  No. 10
• Adventure Never Felt So Good
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  Rancho La Puerta
• The Fit List -- cont.
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Attractions

Clingmans Dome

Good For Hiking and Backpacking

c/o Great Smoky Mountains National Park,107 Park Headquarters Road
Gatlinburg, Tennessee 37738

Description:

At 6,643 feet, Clingmans Dome is the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Nolichucky River Gorge

Good For Hiking and Backpacking

Cherokee National Forest (TN) and Pisgah National Forest (NC)


Description: The Nolichucky River Gorge stretches for 110 miles and offers Class I-IV whitewater. ... Read More

Expert Rated & Recommended

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

Good For Hiking and Backpacking

US Highway 27 - Lafayette Road
Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia 30742

Expert Rated & Recommended

Hotels

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Fontana Village Resort

Highway 28
Fontana Dam, NC 28733 Map

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Dancing Bear Lodge

137 Apple Valley Way
Townsend, TN 37822 Map

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The Hermitage Hotel

231 Sixth Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37219 Map

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