Momentous Adventures: Big South Fork’s J+D Loop
Need a backpacking trip where you get away from the crowds? Try this 55 mile loop and you will discover more animal prints than signs of humans. You will traverse high cliffs, beveled rock shelters and skirt the amazing creeks that crisscross this Wilderness. The J+D loop follows the John Muir TR. (No, the other […]
One Day Wilderness: Baskins Falls
This great 3 mile day hike is best started from the overflow parking lot of the Rainbow Falls TH. From the lot follow a way trail uphill to an intersection with the Trillium Gap TR. and make that left, cross over the Roaring Fork Rd. and continue on Baskins Creek TR. proper. Continue on for […]
One Day Wilderness: Greenbrier Pinnacle Waytrail
When I was training for my current position, I had another guide tell me about the Pinnacle Tr. and some of the other notable “manways” in the Park. Then I became acquainted with a primitive artist here in Gatlinburg and he told me about how he missed hiking in that area. Then completely unrelated, another […]