Gatlinburg Vacation - Part 3

Wednesday the weather was nice so we decided to finally go hiking again. We drove up to Clingman's Dome and were going to hike out to Andrew's Bald, but it was a lot colder and windier up there than we thought it would be and we were afraid Samuel would get too cold. We stayed up there and took a few pictures and then drove a few miles down the mountain to a shorter nature trail that the ranger had told us about. It was just a 1/2 mile loop through the forest, but we had fun. Then we just took our time driving back down the mountain stopping along the way to take pictures of the fall colors. At the bottom of the mountain we did another 1/2 mile loop trail, the Sugarland Valley Nature Trail. It was a really easy trail that went along the river. They had different plaques along the way naming the trees and telling how to identify their leaves and Samuel had a lot of fun having us read them to him and then he would try to find the leaves along the way.

Fall colors

Samuel at the Clingman's Dome parking area

More pics from Clingman's Dome

Samuel hiking on the first trail we went on

Adam driving down the mountain

More fall colors

Along the river on the Sugarland Valley trail

Samuel telling us we had to stop because he had to be the leader

One last color pic