ESTADOS UNIDOS - NORTH CAROLINA - Appalachian Trail en North Carolina - Great Smoky Mountains (itinerario completo)
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 160.01 mi
- Elevation gain
- 37,326 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 40,085 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,620 ft
- TrailRank
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95
5
- Min elevation
- 1,357 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 12 days 13 hours 48 minutes
- Coordinates
- 22681
- Uploaded
- December 12, 2022
- Recorded
- February 2016
near Tate City, Georgia (United States)
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Itinerary description
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UNITED STATES - NORTH CAROLINA - Appalachian Trail in the State of North Carolina - Great Smoky Mountains (complete itinerary)
⇐ Link to the previous section: UNITED STATES - GEORGIA - Appalachian Trail - Appalachian Trail in the State of Georgia (complete itinerary)
Complete route, from south to north, along the section of the Appalachian Trail , between the Carter Gap Shelter , in the state of North Carolina (United States), and Green Corner Road , Hartford, Tennessee, crossing completely, from southwest to northeast the immense Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Great Smoky Mountains), with an area of 2,108 square kilometers.
Map of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and nearby towns. Source: National Park
The Appalachian Trail covers a total of approximately 2,198.4 miles (3,500 km), between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and runs through 14 states: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
On this very long journey, the AT as a whole passes through 6 national parks: Great Smoky Mountains National Park , Blue Ridge Parkway , Shenandoah National Park , Harpers Ferry National Historical Park , Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park , as well as 8 national forests, 2 large wildlife refuge areas and numerous state parks.
The exact length of the trail changes frequently, as itineraries are revised each year and some improvements are made to the routing of the route, which can also alter the total mileage (99% of the current AT route has been relocated or reconstructed ever since the trail's creation in 1937).
Although it is estimated that between two and three million "hikers" cover some part of this impressive trail every year, from 1936 to March 2021, only 21,553 people had registered completing the entire trail (1,128 in 2018). and are recognized and registered in the 2,000-Miler Listing .
Most hikers do this south-to-north (NOBO) hike, beginning on Springer Mountain, Georgia, in late winter, and a smaller percentage hike north-to-south (SOBO), starting at Mount Katahdin, Maine ). In both cases, for a complete and direct route of the path, between 4 and 7 months are needed, approximately.
Many hikers who do not have such an extensive period of free time, make the journey "by sections", or in the "Flip flop" modality, with a more or less long duration depending on the availability of each one.
In our case, we have chosen to walk the Appalachian Trail by sections, using a total of 192 days of walking , which has allowed us to know this itinerary inch by inch (step by step) during the four seasons of the year, documenting and recording with GPS each stage and obtaining more than 12,000 photographs.
The section referred to in this route corresponds to 13 days ' march from shortly after the border between the states of Georgia and North Carolina, to the small town of Hartford, in Cocke County, Tennessee, a short distance from the Davenport Gap , located at the northeastern end of the National Park.
From that point, the itinerary continues its course, linking up with stage 23 .
Although we have grouped the stages in this section under the heading of North Carolina , the reality is that in many of these initial stages, including the route through the Great Smoky Mountains, the trail usually follows the mountain ridge that separates the states of North Carolina and Tennessee, passing interchangeably from one state to another for more than 350 km. (until just before the conclusion of Stage 35 - From Carvers Gap to Route US-19-E, Roan Mountain ).
For this reason, and with the intention of simplifying, we have chosen to cite as North Carolina stages, all those that are shared with Tennessee until shortly before the end of the route through the Great Smoky Mountains, and from that point we will classify them all, until arriving at to Virginia, as belonging to Tennessee , although as we have pointed out, it is an itinerary that is actually shared between both states.
In this compilation we have made some corrections and rectified some GPS and altimeter failures, which we had not been able to do in the individual detail of each day, so in some way, the route presented is more precise than the one shown by each one of them. the stages separately.
The route of this section of the AT through North Carolina was carried out in different sections, during the year 2016, with varied weather conditions, but with very frequent rains and storms.
The 257 km. of this section, were divided into the following 13 stages or days :
⇒ Day 1: 10 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 10.1 and 9.2 - From Muskrat Creek Shelter to Carter Gap Shelter
⇒ Day 2: 11 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 9.1 and 8.2 - From the Carter Gap Shelter to Winding Stair Gap - US-64
⇒ Day 3: 12 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 8.1, 7 and 6.2. From Winding Stair Gap to Wesser Bald Shelter
⇒ Day 4: 13 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 6.1 - From the Wesser Bald Shelter to the Nantahala River, Wesser, NC
⇒ Day 5: 14 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 5. From Nantahala River, Wesser, to Cheoah Bald and Stecoah Gap, route US-143
⇒ Day 6: 15 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 4 and 3. Stecoah Gap to Little Tennessee River, Fontana Dam
⇒ Day 7:16 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 2.4 - Great Smoky Mountains - From Fontana Dam to Mollies Ridge Shelter
⇒ Día 8: 17 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 2.3 - Great Smoky Mountains - Mollies Ridge Shelter a Derrick Knob Shelter
⇒ Día 9: 18 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 2.2 - Great Smoky Mountains - Derrick Knob Shelter a Double Spring Gap
⇒ Día 10: 19 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 2.1 - Great Smoky Mountains - Double Spring Gap Shelter a Newfound Gap
⇒ Día 11: 20 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 1.3 - Great Smoky Mountains - Newfound Gap a Pecks Corner Shelter
⇒ Día 12: 21 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 1.2 - Great Smoky Mountains - De Pecks Corner Shelter a Cosby Knob Shelter
⇒ Day 13: 22 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 1.1 - Great Smoky Mountains - From Cosby Knob Shelter to Green Corner Road, TN
⇐ Link to the previous section: UNITED STATES - GEORGIA - Appalachian Trail - Appalachian Trail in the State of Georgia (complete itinerary)
Complete route, from south to north, along the section of the Appalachian Trail , between the Carter Gap Shelter , in the state of North Carolina (United States), and Green Corner Road , Hartford, Tennessee, crossing completely, from southwest to northeast the immense Great Smoky Mountains National Park (Great Smoky Mountains), with an area of 2,108 square kilometers.
Map of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park and nearby towns. Source: National Park
The Appalachian Trail covers a total of approximately 2,198.4 miles (3,500 km), between Springer Mountain in Georgia and Mount Katahdin in Maine, and runs through 14 states: Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine.
On this very long journey, the AT as a whole passes through 6 national parks: Great Smoky Mountains National Park , Blue Ridge Parkway , Shenandoah National Park , Harpers Ferry National Historical Park , Chesapeake & Ohio Canal National Historical Park , as well as 8 national forests, 2 large wildlife refuge areas and numerous state parks.
The exact length of the trail changes frequently, as itineraries are revised each year and some improvements are made to the routing of the route, which can also alter the total mileage (99% of the current AT route has been relocated or reconstructed ever since the trail's creation in 1937).
Although it is estimated that between two and three million "hikers" cover some part of this impressive trail every year, from 1936 to March 2021, only 21,553 people had registered completing the entire trail (1,128 in 2018). and are recognized and registered in the 2,000-Miler Listing .
Most hikers do this south-to-north (NOBO) hike, beginning on Springer Mountain, Georgia, in late winter, and a smaller percentage hike north-to-south (SOBO), starting at Mount Katahdin, Maine ). In both cases, for a complete and direct route of the path, between 4 and 7 months are needed, approximately.
Many hikers who do not have such an extensive period of free time, make the journey "by sections", or in the "Flip flop" modality, with a more or less long duration depending on the availability of each one.
In our case, we have chosen to walk the Appalachian Trail by sections, using a total of 192 days of walking , which has allowed us to know this itinerary inch by inch (step by step) during the four seasons of the year, documenting and recording with GPS each stage and obtaining more than 12,000 photographs.
The section referred to in this route corresponds to 13 days ' march from shortly after the border between the states of Georgia and North Carolina, to the small town of Hartford, in Cocke County, Tennessee, a short distance from the Davenport Gap , located at the northeastern end of the National Park.
From that point, the itinerary continues its course, linking up with stage 23 .
Although we have grouped the stages in this section under the heading of North Carolina , the reality is that in many of these initial stages, including the route through the Great Smoky Mountains, the trail usually follows the mountain ridge that separates the states of North Carolina and Tennessee, passing interchangeably from one state to another for more than 350 km. (until just before the conclusion of Stage 35 - From Carvers Gap to Route US-19-E, Roan Mountain ).
For this reason, and with the intention of simplifying, we have chosen to cite as North Carolina stages, all those that are shared with Tennessee until shortly before the end of the route through the Great Smoky Mountains, and from that point we will classify them all, until arriving at to Virginia, as belonging to Tennessee , although as we have pointed out, it is an itinerary that is actually shared between both states.
In this compilation we have made some corrections and rectified some GPS and altimeter failures, which we had not been able to do in the individual detail of each day, so in some way, the route presented is more precise than the one shown by each one of them. the stages separately.
The route of this section of the AT through North Carolina was carried out in different sections, during the year 2016, with varied weather conditions, but with very frequent rains and storms.
The 257 km. of this section, were divided into the following 13 stages or days :
⇒ Day 1: 10 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 10.1 and 9.2 - From Muskrat Creek Shelter to Carter Gap Shelter
⇒ Day 2: 11 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 9.1 and 8.2 - From the Carter Gap Shelter to Winding Stair Gap - US-64
⇒ Day 3: 12 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 8.1, 7 and 6.2. From Winding Stair Gap to Wesser Bald Shelter
⇒ Day 4: 13 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 6.1 - From the Wesser Bald Shelter to the Nantahala River, Wesser, NC
⇒ Day 5: 14 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 5. From Nantahala River, Wesser, to Cheoah Bald and Stecoah Gap, route US-143
⇒ Day 6: 15 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sections 4 and 3. Stecoah Gap to Little Tennessee River, Fontana Dam
⇒ Day 7:16 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 2.4 - Great Smoky Mountains - From Fontana Dam to Mollies Ridge Shelter
⇒ Día 8: 17 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 2.3 - Great Smoky Mountains - Mollies Ridge Shelter a Derrick Knob Shelter
⇒ Día 9: 18 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 2.2 - Great Smoky Mountains - Derrick Knob Shelter a Double Spring Gap
⇒ Día 10: 19 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 2.1 - Great Smoky Mountains - Double Spring Gap Shelter a Newfound Gap
⇒ Día 11: 20 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 1.3 - Great Smoky Mountains - Newfound Gap a Pecks Corner Shelter
⇒ Día 12: 21 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Sección 1.2 - Great Smoky Mountains - De Pecks Corner Shelter a Cosby Knob Shelter
⇒ Day 13: 22 - APPALACHIAN TRAIL - NORTH CAROLINA - Section 1.1 - Great Smoky Mountains - From Cosby Knob Shelter to Green Corner Road, TN
Waypoints
Photo
4,753 ft
Zona rocosa y musgo, por la vertiente este de subida bordeando la cima de Yellow Mountain (1.510 m.)
Rocky and mossy area, on the eastern slope of ascent bordering the top of Yellow Mountain (1,510 m.)
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Photo
4,936 ft
Rodeando Ridgepole Mountain (1.515 m.). Pequeña cima y sendero al amanecer
Surrounding Ridgepole Mountain (1,515 m.). Small peak and trail at sunrise
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Photo
4,655 ft
Fuerte subida rodeando por el este Big Butt (1.520 m.)
Fuerte subida rodeando por el este Big Butt (1.520 m.)
Panorama
4,706 ft
Extraordinaria vista desde la vertiente este del Big Butt (1.520 m.)
Extraordinaria vista desde la vertiente este del Big Butt (1.520 m.)
Photo
4,931 ft
Subida muy empinada hacia la cima de Albert Mountain (1.585 m.)
Subida muy empinada hacia la cima de Albert Mountain (1.585 m.)
Summit
5,209 ft
Albert Mountain Fire Tower. Magníficas vistas panorámicas
Albert Mountain Fire Tower. Magníficas vistas panorámicas
River
3,797 ft
Moore Creek. Riachuelo junto al Winding Stair Gap
Moore Creek. Riachuelo junto al Winding Stair Gap
Panorama
5,334 ft
Wayah Bald (5.342 pies). Torre en memoria de John Bernard Byrne y magníficas vistas panorámicas de las Smoky Mountains.
Wayah Bald (5,342 ft). John Bernard Byrne Memorial Tower and magnificent panoramic views of the Smoky Mountains.
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Photo
3,862 ft
Jump-off lookout. Espectaculares vistas y bajada muy pendiente
Jump-off lookout. Espectaculares vistas y bajada muy pendiente
Mountain hut
1,726 ft
Nantahala River. Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC)
Nantahala River. Nantahala Outdoor Center (NOC)
Panorama
3,756 ft
The Jump-up. Vista panorámica del valle del río Nantahala
The Jump-up. Vista panorámica del valle del río Nantahala
Intersection
3,130 ft
Stecoah Gap. Intersección del sendero con la ruta US-143
Stecoah Gap. Intersección del sendero con la ruta US-143
Photo
3,126 ft
Presa de Fontana Dam. Al fondo, las primeras crestas del Great Smoky Mountain National Park
Fontana Dam. In the background, the first ridges of the Great Smoky Mountain National Park
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Wilderness hut
1,769 ft
Fontana Dam Shelter (Fontana Hilton Shelter), situado al borde del lago Fontana, con capacidad para 24 personas
Fontana Dam Shelter (Fontana Hilton Shelter), located on the edge of Fontana Lake, with capacity for 24 people
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Lake
1,677 ft
Fontana Dam. Presa hidroeléctrica sobre el Little Tennessee River. Inicio del Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Fontana Dam. Hydroelectric dam on the Little Tennessee River. Home of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Photo
2,253 ft
Sendero de subida hacia la cima de Shuckstack Mountain (3.800 pies). Gradual pero con bastante pendiente
Trail up to the top of Shuckstack Mountain (3,800 feet). Gradual but quite steep
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Waypoint
5,406 ft
Rocky Top (5.441 pies)
Waypoint
4,864 ft
Subida empinada y rocosa
Photo
5,403 ft
The Narrows. Espectacular vista hacia las dos laderas
The Narrows. Espectacular vista hacia las dos laderas
Mountain pass
5,041 ft
Newfound Gap / Ruta US-441 (5.049 pies)
Newfound Gap / Ruta US-441 (5.049 pies)
Photo
5,448 ft
Roca y vistas hacia North Carolina, en la cresta
Roca y vistas hacia North Carolina, en la cresta
Photo
6,040 ft
Deer Creek Gap (1.852 m.). Sendero y vistas a North Carolina
Deer Creek Gap (1.852 m.). Sendero y vistas a North Carolina
Panorama
4,878 ft
Mount Cammerer (1.502 m.). Torreta de vigilancia forestal reacondicionada como mirador, con magníficas vistas panorámicas
Mount Cammerer (1,502 m.). Forest watch turret converted into a lookout, with sweeping views of the Eastern Smokies, Cocke County and the Blue Ridge Mountains
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Photo
3,612 ft
Bajada constante y gradual hacia Davenport Gap
Bajada constante y gradual hacia Davenport Gap
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!Muy buena recopilación de etapas!. Magnífico recorrido por el Great Smoky Mountains National Park
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Ha quedado una magnífica compilación de etapas. !Enhorabuena!
¡Mi más sincera enhorabuena!
Extraordinaria ruta, plasmada al detalle con preciosas fotografías en esta épica Appalachian Trail.
Un auténtico sueño hecho realidad.
Impecable.
Un gran abrazo.