GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS NATIONAL PARK
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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 .
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the largest national park east of the Rocky Mountains .
Great Smoky Mountains National Park contains more than 800 miles of hiking trails .
The Cherokee people called this place Shaconage , which means place of blue smoke .