We left West Virginia and headed south thru a bit of Virginia and into Johnston City, Tennessee and the Smoky Mountains. Great Smoky Mountain National Park is the most visited park in the country and when I revised my trip Deep Creek Campground was the only campground in the park I was able to book. It is located in the southern part of Great Smoky Mountain National Park, in Bryson City, NC. It turned out to be a good choice. It is much less busy than other parts of the park. There was a trail to 3 different waterfalls from the campground. My daughter, Adriana and her partner Micah met us at the campground and set their tent up next to our camper. We had a great visit.
Deep Creek Campground opened for the season the day we arrived. While we were setting up camp, we met a wonderful couple a little older than us from Vermont. They told us they had been in a motel in Gatlinburg for a few days while recovering from an illness and that it was very crowded and commercialized. They were very happy to be in this part of the Smokies. We had a lot of fun talking with them multiple times during our stay and even exchanged addresses the day we left. We met another young guy who told us about a great campsite in Olympic National Park we should check out and a WW II D-Day alumni veteran who told us how he used to come to the campground all the time with his wife who had recently passed away. We enjoy meeting other campers. Most folks are friendly and they are always impressed that we love in Maine 😊🌲
On one of the days there, we took a ride up to Newcomb Gap and hiked a bit of the Appalachian Trail on the border of Tennessee. The views were amazing.
Wonderful
Wonderful