Great Smoky Mt National Park

We started our day in Gatlinburg riding on the sky lift up to 2300 feet on Crocket Mountain. There's a gift shop up there and great views.  We walked around a bit when we came back down and then went to Great Smoky Mountain National Park.  The ranger suggested that we make our way up to the highest point at Clingman's Dome which is 6643 ft. On the way we stopped at the Chimney Rock picnic area for lunch which was nice.  Approaching the top we saw cars and trucks parked on the side of the road coming out and quickly realized that the parking lot was full! So we drove around the parking lot and headed back down not wanting to park the truck on the side of the mountain.  It was pretty up there.  Coming back down we stopped at Newfound Gap and were able to park safely and walk around and take pictures.

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