Travel Haiku - Great Smoky Mountains National Park (United States) Poem by john tiong chunghoo

Mount Cammerer fire tower
a pristine view though for the
Great Smoky Mountain sights

Boasting more than 800 miles of trails and straddling the border of Tennessee and North Carolina, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a hiker's paradise. Finding your own little slice of Appalachian solitude in the country's most-visited national park is easy if you know how to get off the beaten path. Our advice: Hike the Cosby area in the northeast corner of the park. It sees a mere fraction of the traffic that Cades Cove and other well-known areas receive. The crown-jewel hike here is to the Mount Cammerer fire tower, which sits at nearly 5,000 feet and offers some of the best views in the park.