Walk Free to use for a limited period.
Grotto Falls (Trillium Gap Trail)
- stops
- 8stops
- narration
- ~4 minnarration
- between stops, approx.
- 2.7 kmbetween stops, approx.
Can be saved for offline listening
A four-mile round-trip walk on the Trillium Gap Trail to the only waterfall in the Smokies you can stand behind. Eight stops cover the old-growth forest on the way up, the falls themselves — and the trail's unlikely regular commuters, a llama pack train that resupplies the lodge on Mount LeConte.
Where it starts
Trailhead & Orientation
35.6802° N, 83.4626° W
The stops
- Stop 1: Trailhead & Orientation
- Stop 2: Into Old Growth
- Stop 3: The Llama Trail
- Stop 4: Approaching the Falls
- Stop 5: Grotto Falls Arrival
- Stop 6: Behind the Falls
- Stop 7: Trillium Gap Ahead
- Stop 8: Close