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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
is the largest national park east of the
Rocky Mountains.
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The Cherokee
people called this
place Shaconage,
which means place
of blue smoke.
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Approximately 244,000 acres
of the park are in Tennessee
and 276,000 in North
Carolina. That’s a total of
520,000 acres or more than
800 square miles.
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Great Smoky Mountains
National Park contains more
than 800 miles of hiking trails.