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Great Smoky Mountains National Park
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. Elevations in the park range from 876 feet at the mouth of Abrams Creek to 6,643 feet at the summit of Clingmans Dome. Within the park, a total of sixteen mountains reach higher than 6,000 feet. About 10,000 species of plants and animals are known to live in the park, and estimates as high as an additional 90,000 undocumented species may also be present. Today, it is the most visited national park in the United States.
Autumnal landscape.
 
Smoky Mountain stream; American crow.
Into a tunnel in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
Out of tunnel in Gatlinburg, Tennessee.
American Crow.
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