Great Smoky Mountains National Park is one of the great hiking destinations in the mid-Atlantic region, if not the entire East Coast. Across its rumpled 522,427 acres there are more than 800 miles of trails. They range from relatively short footpaths to scenic payoffs like Rainbow Falls and Abrahams Falls to the more than 70 miles of the Appalachian National Scenic Trail that crosses the top of the park.
Nancy East is well familiar with the park’s trail network, as she and a close friend set out in the fall of 2020 to hike every mile of that network, and then she wrote about it in a new book, Chasing the Smokies Moon. We talked to Nancy to understand what motivated her to embark on such a hike and what that endeavor taught her.
:02 National Parks Traveler introduction
:12 Episode Introduction with Kurt Repanshek
1:08 Amaranth - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
1:20 Yosemite Conservancy
1:41 Friends of Acadia
2:07 Potrero Group
2:34 Nova Scotia Tourism
3:06 Kurt Repanshek talks with Nancy East, author of Chasing the Smokies Moon
20:18 The Offering - Bill Mize - The Sounds of the Great Smoky Mountains
20:36 Grand Teton National Park Foundation
21:06 Blue Ridge Parkway Foundation
21:26 Interior Federal Credit Union
22:03 Wild Tribute
22:30 Washington’s National Park Fund
23:10 Kurt and Nancy continue their discussion about hiking in Great Smoky Mountains National Park
41:52 Schoodic - Nature’s Symphony - The Sounds of Acadia
42:06 Episode Closing
42:49 Orange Tree Productions
43:21 Splitbeard Productions
43:33 National Parks Traveler footer
- By Kurt Repanshek - January 23rd, 2022 7:00am
