Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail · 14 stops + 1 story
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Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail — Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

14 stops + 1 story · ~9 min

Plus short extra stories between stops. You can switch them off in the player.

Driving tourGPS guided⤓ Works offline
8.3 midriving route
15stories
9 minof audio
Free to use for a limited period.

Full drive about 50 minutes at an easy pace, plus any stops you make.

Distance to start: — Directions
Location accessAsked on start

Save this tour before you drive into the park — there is little or no phone signal inside, and unsaved stops will not play.

Before you start

  1. Mount the phone where the driver can see it, and turn the car audio or volume up.
  2. Start anywhere on the route. Directions
  3. Press Start, then just drive. Each story plays when you reach it.
Free to use for a limited period.
Stops
1
Trail Entrance & Cherokee Orchard
2
Noah "Bud" Ogle Place
3
The Tub Mill & Flume
4
Entering the One-Way Loop
5
Into the Old Growth
6
Trillium Gap Trailhead
7
Jim Bales Place
8
Ephraim Bales Place
9
Alfred Reagan Place
10
The Stream Underfoot
11
Farming a Narrow Valley
12
Mount LeConte Above You
13
Place of a Thousand Drips
Story along the way
Ely's Mill
Plays straight after the stop before it
14
Trail Exit & What's Next
Map of Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail with each stop marked
Map & route

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.

How this tour works
Autoplay works while this page is open. Bring a charger — GPS and audio use battery over a long tour.