Rocky Mountain National Park I took a trip to Colorado In July of 2015 it was the best week of my life. The best part of that week was the day that I got to spend in rocky mountain national park. It was a great experience with beautiful scenery and wildlife everywhere you looked. This trip changed everything I thought about where I wanted to go and what I wanted to do when I am finished with my schooling. I can remember everything from that day and still think of it often. The first area we went
Escape From the City On any given weekend, thousands of Americans flock to the mountains to escape the rigors of city life. An escape from their bustling, smog coated, deadline driven lives, is a necessary part of 21st century life in an American city. Mans desire to commune with nature can be traced back to the earliest civilizations, and while that desire may have lessened somewhat in the past couple hundred years, the enjoyment of nature still remains. In Colorado, a mixture of big city
Deep in the heart of the Rockies lies the small mountain village of Estes Park, Colorado. Estes Park borders Rocky Mountain National Park and it was my summer retreat. Never in my life had I seen someplace taken directly out of a fairy tale. The mountains swallowed the town. One particular mountain immediately caught my eye. I knew that it had to be the tallest, for it was the only mountain that was still covered in May snow. I later learned that the enormous mountain was Longs Peak. Longs Peak
It was just a normal week in June at Rocky Mountain National Park. My family and I have been coming since I was born. It is always so beautiful to see the snow on the mountains and to think that this park was only established 101 years ago. They just celebrated their 100 year anniversary last year in 2015. Being in Colorado makes me feel at home because I usually go there once a year for multiple weeks. This year, I went there in the summer for a lacrosse tournament. In the summer it is just so awesome
of different types of animals, the Great Smoky Mountains is the place to be. The beauty of this park even inspired singer/songwriter Boudleaux Bryant to write a song about it called Rocky Top. “Rocky Top, you'll always be, home sweet home to me. Good ole Rocky Top, Rocky Top Tennessee”, those lyrics can now be heard all throughout Tennessee as is has become one of the official state songs. Good ole Rocky Top has been named the busiest national park averaging about 9 million visitors a year. Since
Every year, over nine million hikers and adventure seekers travel to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park making it the most visited national park in the United States. There are abundant reasons for this, but many popular reasons include over 150 hiking trails extending over 850 miles, a large portion of the Appalachian Trail, sightseeing, fishing, horseback riding, and bicycling. The park houses roughly ten thousand species of plants and animals with an estimated 90,000 undocumented species
The 205-thousand-square-mile Appalachian Mountain range, which spans from Eastern Canada to northern Alabama, boasts North America’s oldest mountains (formed approximately 400 million years ago), the highest peak of the eastern United States (Mount Mitchell), industrial production opportunities and leisurely recreation. The range includes the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky mountains (NCSU, n.d.). A range of recreational activities such as fishing in freshwater streams, camping, biking the
there are thousands of wonderful places to vacation. These places can range anywhere from the great state parks of the northwest to the hundreds of beaches among the coastline. There are two places that come to mind though when considering the best place to vacation. These two places are Panama City Beach and The Great Smoky Mountains. It is not just the common things such as a beach or huge mountains that make these two places stand out among others. It is, however, the amazing destinations that these
The Beauty of Ramsey Cascades Deep in the heart of the Smokey Mountains, Ramsey Cascades is located about 4 Miles away from Gatlinburg. It is known as one of the more tedious hikes in the Smokey’s because of its rapid change of elevation, “The trail to the waterfall gains over 2,000' in elevation over its 4 mile course and the 8-mile round-trip hike is considered strenuous in difficulty” (Ramsey Cascades 1). It is very popular with most hikers and can be done easily in one day. “This waterfall in
My Great Smoky Mountain Vacation The Great Smoky Mountains is a wonderful place to have a family vacation because of the beautiful log cabins, the downtown city life, and the historic hiking trail Alum Cave. The Great Smoky Mountains is located in Gatlinburg Tennessee. It’s named after its beautiful blue-like smoky mist that covers the mountains. It’s made up of over 500,000 acres of southern Appalachian wilderness. It’s the largest tourist park. The Great Smoky Mountains itself is absolutely breathtaking
freshwater streams and wildlife foraging through the mountainside. This is what citizens of Pigeon Forge, Tennessee get to wake up to ever day. Pigeon Forge is a small town near the border of South Carolina. It sits along the edge of the Cherokee National Forest and on the west side of Little Pigeon River. It is not only located in a beautiful area, but also a thriving area economically speaking. Overall, Pigeon Forge is a family friendly place where people can not only live in a beautiful city,
In A Walk in the Woods our author, Bill Bryson, hikes through the deadly wilderness along the terribly long Appalachian Trail with his humorously witty companion Katz. Throughout the journey it becomes embarrassingly obvious that they will not be able to hike the entirety of the trail. The idea that they will not completely finish it begs the question; have Bryson and his faithful companion Katz actually hiked the Appalachian Trail? Katz gave his own account of whether or not they have hiked the
vast urban ranges to visit mountain springs, the waters of which were thought to have wellbeing restoring qualities. The business blast In the early twentieth century, Pigeon Forge was a segregated mountain villa with no significant ways. The closest railroad station was in Sevierville. Scaffolds were likewise extraordinary, the main real water intersections being a series of portages along the Little Pigeon. At the point when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was opened in 1934, the Tennessee
"Gateway to the Smoky Mountains." It is located approximately 120 miles southwest of the ETSU campus. Pigeon Forge is a highly recognized tourist town with many activities. Pigeon Forge, Tennessee contains many forms of entertainment, such as Dollywood, lodging, and restaurants for the average student tourists. The entertainment industry is the main reason why Pigeon Forge is such a well-known tourist town. Dollywood is usually the main attraction. Dollywood is an Appalachian theme park that draws in
multiple destinations to choose from. I personally believe the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a perfect family vacation for families of all ages. The Smoky Mountains provide a sense of adventure, a welcoming, atmosphere, and interests for people of all ages. The Great Smoky Mountain National Park, located on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee, is America’s most visited national park (Great, par.1, 2017). THe park offers a range of things to do. Visitors can go for a hike, take a camping
is split into five physiographic provinces: the Middle Rocky Mountains, the Wyoming Basin, the Colorado Plateau, the Southern Rocky Mountains, and the Great Plains (“Physiographic,” 2013). Inside these provinces are millions of years worth of geological time that tell a story of volcanic eruptions, uplift and erosion, deposition, and metamorphism. The Middle Rocky Mountains are home to the Dinosaur National Monument. In Dinosaur National Monument you
scenery. His panoramic scenes of the Rockies therefore attracted universal attention in the 1860s…” With the painting that was created in his time at the Rocky Mountains his intentions were to show the public the beauty that rested in the mysterious wilderness. A few years after Bierstadt’s The Rocky Mountain was finished the actual Rocky Mountains were nicknamed the “Future Switzerland of America.” This could be because of the way Bierstadt portrayed the mountain range. The paintings Albert Bierstadt
Given that both the centenary of the National Park Service (NPS) of the United States and Rocky Mountain National Park in Colorado are both fast approaching centenaries in 2016 and 2015 respectively, it is a key time to investigate retrospectively at the history of a specific park over the last century. Parks in the United States are one of the key driver of tourism within the US. And it is worth examining the relatinship between parks and tourism. Additionaly, 2014 is the 50th anniversary of the
This is also the case for Yellowstone and Yosemite National Park. Near Inspiration Point on the Grand Canyon in Yellowstone, a boulder-sized piece of granite sits in the middle of nothing. It traveled a great distance on the Pinedale glacier from Beartooth Mountains, and then was left alone once the ice retreated (National Nature Park Service). This rock is different from others in the Yellowstone bedrock, and displaced rocks of any size, which
The Rocky Mountains are an incredible mountain range located in North America in the Western Hemisphere. The mountain range stretches from northern Colorado and into southwestern Canada. It is home to a diverse ecosystem, both geographically and biologically and is revered as a monumental landform worldwide. The geologic history of the Rocky Mountains has come about as an aggregation of millions of years. Briefly speaking, the formation of the Rockies transpired from hundreds and millions of years