While in Tennessee last year, we went on the Laurel Falls hike in Smoky Mountains National Park. It's a very popular trail and we had a hard time finding parking. We drove up and down the road a ways and almost left before eventually finding someone just pulling out from a a small lot down the road.
Roundtrip the hike is 2.6 miles and is described on the NPS website as moderate in difficulty, but we found it to be more on the easy side of moderate. We saw several preschool-elementary school aged kids on the hike and they seemed fine. Although there are some steep drop-offs, so you definitely wouldn't want to take kids who weren't familiar with hiking or who are rowdy on this hike!
Anyways, it was a nice hike. The weather was nice and while there was a fair amount of people on the hike, it wasn't too busy.
After the hike we drove up to an overlook at the Tennessee and North Carolina border and saw part of the Appalachian trail.
Have you ever been to Great Smoky Mountains National Park?
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