8 days of hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains! We did 78 miles and 2 1/2 miles of elevation gain hiked over 8 days inside the Great Smoky Mountain National Park! We saw most of the big waterfalls and a couple of mountain tops. I couldn’t ask for a better way to spend our 25th …
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We’ve hiked the trail to Clingmans Dome (in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park) several times over the years. It is a quick, steep hike. We did it a few fairly spectacular times. One time in 2014 for a sunrise which was one of the prettiest I’ve ever seen in my life. This year after …
Mt. LeConte (Via Alum Cave Trail) @ Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee – 8/1/2020 – 13.98 miles, 2,937 feet elevation gain. We spent 8 days hiking in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park for our 25-year anniversary. We started off day one on the longest hike of our life. It is one of the …
We drove up to Lafayette, TN (while up at Bledsoe Creek State Park) for what we thought would be a short, mile and a half long hike. Our target was Winding Stairs Trail. 5+ miles, a couple of thousand feet of elevation, and almost 3 hours later we finished a very enjoyable hike! There were …
We spent a fun-filled, jam-packed, day in Bryce Canyon National Park in the Summer of 2019. This is my favorite National Park that I’ve visited so far. It is so beautiful! We drove down from Park City, Utah, and explored the park before heading on to Zion National Park. I might have cut it a …
Zion Canyon, The Narrows, Riverside Walk, Weeping Rock, Emerald Pools, Big Bend, Pa’rus Trail, South Entrance, Cable Mountain Lodge, Zion Canyon Shuttle, Swimming, Hiking. We saw all that but two days at Zion National Park wasn’t nearly enough to see everything! Phenomenal! If you have not been…GO! Zion National Park is currently duking it out …
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Camping in the blazing hot Tennessee Summer without working AC?!? Not advised! In July we went to Bledsoe Creek State Park (in Gallatin, Tennessee). This was our first state park camping in our RV. It was extremely hot on the weekend we went. It was 98 degrees (the hottest weekend of 2020). We hiked the …
The Narrows @ Zion National Park, Utah– 7/26/2019 – 6 miles, 335 feet elevation gain. We only had two days on our visit to Zion National Park and made sure to get The Narrows hike in. We went during the monsoon season which is not the best time to go hiking in the Narrows due …
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Back in the middle of June we traveled back to Clarksville (our second RV trip) and checked another Tennessee state park off our list, Dunbar Cave State Park! This was our second RV trip so we spent part of the weekend still getting set up and acquainted with our new RV. The rest of the …
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After spending a day in Bryce Canyon National Park, we found a trail that looked interesting. So, we hiked it. We are sure glad we did!!! The Navajo Loop Trail wound up being the highlight of our day in the park. It was a short hike and not terribly difficult. What made it rank so …
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