Our first day here will be Saturday and we plan to visit an area of the park known as Cades Cove. It's supposed to be a very scenic area with numerous hiking trails that all emanate from an 11-mile loop road that provides access to this area. As luck would have it, the National Parks Service closes this road to vehicular traffic for a few hours on Saturday mornings, allowing bicyclists to ride freely without having to worry about cars. We'll have to get up and leave our campground pretty early to do it, as they re-open the road at 10:00 and our campground is about 45 minutes away, but this is definitely in our plans. Apparently, we can even get a patch if we want to!!!
The rest of our time in the park on Saturday & Sunday will be spent on scenic drives & hikes. I'm sure we'll also drive to and hike to the top of Clingman's Dome, one of the more prominent features of the park.
Other than that, we'll probably just spend a lot of time relaxing and playing board games. Assuming the weather cooperates, it should be a nice couple of days for us before we begin the next segment of our trip, which will include four days on the road to get to our next destination. More about that in the next post!!!
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