OUTDOORS: Best hiking guidebooks of the Smokies
His most recent column takes a lengthy look at these hiking guidebooks of the Smokies:
Ken Wise’s “Hiking Trails of the Great Smoky Mountains.”
Russ Manning’s “100 Hikes in the great Smoky Mountains National Park”
“The Best of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: A Hiker’s Guide to Trails and Attractions” by Russ Manning and Sondra Jamieson
Danny Bernstein’s “Hiking the Carolina Mountains.”
“North Carolina Hiking Trails” by Allen de Hart
Johnny Molloy’s “Trial by Trail: Backpacking in the Smoky Mountains,”
Michal Strutin’s “History Hikes of the Smokies”
Casada’s closing paragraph:
By all means, seek some armchair adventure through works such as those mentioned above, but the ultimate adventure, whatever the season, comes through being on the trail. Whether it’s a leisurely walk up lower Deep Creek – the sort scores of folks make daily – or one of those strenuous 20-plus mile ventures my brother Don enjoys, to be afoot in the park is to tread paths of wonder.
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