Get on Trail fall hikes full but hope you can try Twin creeks

 Good news is that hiking is getting more and more popular, as folks start seeing that it is a great way to get fit, meet friends and enjoy our regions natural beauty.    Bad news is that our Get on Trail w/ Friends & Missy fills up soo quickly!   We hike every wednesday in OCT and April.   But I do some other hikes especially with Legacy Parks as I'm on the board and hoping to get more interest and funding for this organization. They are trying to improve our parks/greenways/trail system around the knox county/city area.  And so I am helping them start a FRIENDS of Legacy group and plan to help lead hikes around Knox County but also parks close by like Frozen Head, Norris, Panther Creek over the next 12 months. 

 

But if you haven't done it before go check out Twin Creek Trails right outside mynatt park in gatlinburg.  Full of history and pretty, but easy trail    It starts up out of the city park (close to the intersection to motor nature trail)  You have to walk up the road about 200 yards and then you see train entrance.   It goes for 1.7 before you come to the new Twin Creek science center. IT is a cool place where school groups and others get to explore for field trips etc (check with ranger station about it)    Then the trail cont on for another 1/4 mile to the Ogle Cabin     The Bud Noah Ogle wanted to bring his family here from SC and had the land and came to clear etc but he passed away soon after his trip.  So his wife and 7 kids and relatives came over the mountains anyway and built the family cabin/farm area.   Many many apple trees used to be all through this area.   At the cabins take some time to look around then you can either come back for a 4 mile hike, or for longer hikers can walk uphill on road half mile till you come to parking lot etc for Rainbow falls.   You can take the trail out to old sugarland trail and walk around that 3,9 miles back to sugurland visitor center  So you can leave one car there before driving to mynatt park to start your hike.  
www.friendsofthesmokies.org    and www.legacyparks.org 
  Missy     Call center where I work @ covenant health 541-4500  Also I'm on facebook