
Some of the park’s most popular attractions include:

The park’s 300 miles of roads meander through lush forests to scenic viewpoints, historic sites, hiking trails, campgrounds and great fishing and wildlife opportunities.

It encompasses more than 800 square miles of breathtaking natural diversity, and the best way to see a reasonable amount of this park is by taking a scenic drive. The nation’s most popular national park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the border between Tennessee and North Carolina. Here are some attractions that we recommend for your stay. Not a good way to run a business, but I suspect on busy weekends they gets lots and lots of customers.Nestled in the Smoky Mountains on a Cherokee Nation reservation, Cherokee, NC, is a town that can provide both enriching cultural experiences and exciting outdoor adventures. The young man treated us like we were a bother to him. There have to be more friendly, helpful companies in North Carolina than this one. Of course, they offered to cut and polish ($20 a carot) to which we just took are ordinary plain looking rocks and went home. We just picked all of them out and took them in. We also tried looking for rubys to which the worker said, "Look for dark blue stones." Well almost all of them looked dark blue when wet. I had to repeatedly go into the store to get him to ask him for help as he just handed us a bag of dirt, gave a quick demo and disappeared to go smoke. Getting the right technique down and knowing what you are looking for takes some time. Obviously they must have been tired after a busy weekend or something because the the young man working there was not interested in helping us. My son was looking forward to "panning for gold." We were the first ones there on a Monday morning.
