Great Smoky Mountains

Layer after layer and ridge after ridge of forest straddles the border between North Carolina and Tennessee in Great Smoky Mountains National Park. It is renowned for wide diversity of plant and animal life, the beauty of its ancient mountains, Fall color change begins above 4,000 feet and progresses to lower levels. Peak color display at mid and lower elevations occurs between mid-October and early November and includes an amazing diversity of deciduous trees: sugar maple, scarlet oak, sweetgum, red maple, and hickory. These images were obtained at peak fall color change (October), and at the peak of the spring rebirth (May); 2012 and 2016 respectively.

: 5331 Cascade, Spring

: 5332 Cascade, Spring

: 5333 Cascade, Spring

: 5295 Greenbriar Cascade, Spring

: 5296 Greenbriar Cascade, Spring

: 5309 Tree Stump, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN

: 5314 Tree, Sam’s Creek, Spring

: 5335 Springtime Flowers

: 5316 Cascade, Spring

: 5315 Spring, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

: 5308 Cascade, Spring

: 5307 Cascade, Spring

: 5306 Cascade, Spring

: 5305 Cascade, Spring

: 5304 Cascade, Spring

: 5303 Cascade, Spring

: 5302 Cascade, Spring

: 5299 Cascade, Spring

: 5310 Cascade, Spring

: 5298 Spring, Rhododendron Creek Waterfall

: 5313 Spring, Rhododendron Creek Waterfall

: 5317 Cascade, Spring

: 5318 Cascade, Spring

: 5319 Cascade, Spring

: 5301 Jim Bales Historic Cabin, Spring

: 5300 Bales Cemetery

: 5321 Grist Mill, Cade’s Cove, Spring

: 5320 Grist Mill, Cade’s Cove

: 5351 Grist Mill, Cades Cove

: 5323 Carter Shield’s Cabin, Spring

: 5324 Cascade

: 5325 Cascade, Spring

: 5328 Cascade, Spring

: 5329 Waterfall, Spring

: 5327 Sunrise, Spring

: 5330 Sunrise, Spring

: 5322 Sunrise, Spring

: 5350 Sunrise, Spring

: 5349 Sunrise, Clingman’s Dome

: 5297 Sunrise, Clingman’s Dome

: 5312 Sunset, Clingman’s Dome

: 5311 Sunset, Clingman’s Dome

: 5334 Sunset, Clingman’s Dome, Spring

: 1699 Mingus Mill

: 1697 Mingus Mill

: 1722 Mingus Grist Mill

: 1694 Wooden Flume of Mingus Grist Mill

: 1700 Mingus Mill Spillover

: 1703 Autumn Color

: 1704 Autumn Color

: 1705 ‘Midnight Hole’, Big Creek

: 1706 Lynn Camp Prong Cascade with Autumn Color

: 1707 Lynn Camp Prong Cascades with Autumn Color

: 1708 Cascade with Autumn Color

: 1698 Autumn Color, Cascades

: 1709 Cascade and Autumn Color

: 1710 Autum Color

: 1711 Autumn Color

: 1712 Autumn Color

: 1713 Autumn Color

: 1714 Autumn Color

: 1717 Foggy Morning, Hyatt Lane

: 1718 Sunset, Spark’s Road

: 1719 Evening, Primitive Baptist Church, Cade’s Cove

: 1721 Autumn Color, Greenbriar

: 1724 Autumn, Greenbriar Stream

: 6088 Fall Color Water Reflections

: 1725 Roaring Forks (Alfred Reagan’s) Tub Mill

: 1726 Roaring Forks (Alfred Reagan’s) Tub Mill

: 1727 Autumn, Roaring Forks (Alfred Reagan’s) Tub Mill

: 1729 Mountain Stream

: 1695 November Sunrise, Clingman’s Dome

: 1696 November Dawn, Clingman’s Dome

: 1730 Sunset, Clingman’s Dome

: 1731 Sunset, Clingman’s Dome

: 1732 Sunset Color, Clingman’s Dome

: 1733 Sunrise, Clingman’s Dome

: 1715 Bud Ogle’s House

: 1716 Bud Ogle’s Grist Mill

: 1728 Bud Ogle’s Grist Mill

: 1734 Noah ‘Bud’ Ogle’s Cabin

: 1735 Inside Noah ‘Bud’ Ogle’s Cabin

: 1736 Autumn Color

: 1737 Cascades and Autumn Color

: 1738 Wagon Wheel, Cade’s Cove

: 1739 Grist Mill, Cade’s Cove

: 1720 Grist Mill, Cade’s Cove

: 1740 Grist Mill, Cade’s Cove