The next morning we left Cosby campground and drove west on Hwy. 32, which connects to Hwy. 321 and continues along the northern boundary of the park to Gatlinburg. We reentered the park there and set up in Elkmont Campground.
We had a very nice site on a creek.
Elkmont Campground is on the site of an old resort, of which many of the buildings are still standing. So we hiked around to check them out.
Some you could enter.
Some you couldn’t.
And some we probably shouldn’t have, but they were open.
In one area all that remained of several buildings were the chimneys.
This site either had a house with 2 chimneys, or there had been 2 small houses rather close together.
Later, I hiked a trail on my own.
This tangle of vines high up in the trees caught my eye.
There were few clear overlooks along the trail. I had to peer through the leaves.
Then the trail led back down.
Here it looked like I was headed into a cave.
But the trail led to a rare good overlook.
I ended up back at the creek running behind our site.
Next American Locations: Gatlinburg, Tennessee
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