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.
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