Great Smoky Mountains Autumn Trees Blue Ridge Parkway Landscape Art
by Reid Callaway
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Great Smoky Mountains Autumn Trees Blue Ridge Parkway Landscape Art
Artist
Reid Callaway
Medium
Photograph - Photography
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Great Smoky Mountains Autumn Trees....by Reid Callaway
Blue Ridge Parkway Landscape Art
This was taken from the Blue Ridge Parkway's Waterrock Knob Overlook at 5820 ft
Waterrock Knob is a mountain peak in the U.S. state of North Carolina. It is the highest peak in the Plott Balsams and is the 16th highest mountain in the Eastern United States. It is the 15th highest of the 40 mountains in North Carolina over 6000 feet.
The mountain is split by both Haywood and Jackson counties in the western mountains of the state. It is located in the Plott Balsams mountain chain between the Great Smoky Mountains and the Great Balsam Mountains. The mountain's summit is located within the Blue Ridge Parkway National Park Service unit.
The mountain is a popular destination with tourists and amateur hikers as it is easily accessible from the Parkway. A visitors center is located near its summit and a hiking trail leads to its top. The hiking trail and visitors center are manned and maintained by the National Park Service, part of the United States Department of the Interior.
The Blue Ridge Parkway is a National Parkway and All-American Road in the United States, noted for its scenic beauty. It runs for 469 miles (755 km) through twenty-nine Virginia and North Carolina counties, mostly along the Blue Ridge, a major mountain chain that is part of the Appalachian Mountains. Its southern terminus is on the boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Cherokee Indian Reservation in North Carolina, from which it travels north to Shenandoah National Park in Virginia and offers access to the Skyline Drive. While the two roads join together end-to-end, they are separate and distinct entities, built as two different projects and managed by two different National Park Service units. The Blue Ridge Parkway was built to connect Shenandoah National Park to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park and UNESCO World Heritage Site that straddles the ridgeline of the Great Smoky Mountains, part of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which are a division of the larger Appalachian Mountain chain. The border between Tennessee and North Carolina runs northeast to southwest through the centerline of the park. It is the most visited national park in the United States. On its route from Maine to Georgia, the Appalachian Trail also passes through the center of the park. The park was chartered by the United States Congress in 1934 and officially dedicated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940. It encompasses 522,419 acres (816.28 sq mi; 2,114.15 km2), making it one of the largest protected areas in the eastern United States. The main park entrances are located along U.S. Highway 441 (Newfound Gap Road) at the towns of Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Cherokee, North Carolina. It was the first national park whose land and other costs were paid for in part with federal funds; previous parks were funded wholly with state money or private funds.
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Reid Callaway
Thank you Jeff Iverson for featuring my artwork in our group... Bath and Spa Prints! 6/23/2021
Reid Callaway
Thank you Janis Vaiba for featuring my artwork in our group….Just perfect! 6/23/2021
Reid Callaway
Thank you Dawn Currie for featuring my artwork in our group, Pure Nature Photography! 6/23/2021
Dawn Currie
Congratulations your image is featured on the home page of the Pure Nature Photography group - celebrating the best of our natural world! You are invited to archive it in the 2021 Pure Nature Photography Group Feature Archive and Thanks discussion thread for longer lasting visibility.
Reid Callaway
Thank you Frozen in Time for featuring my artwork in our group.... The Niche! 12/9/2017
Reid Callaway
Thank you Judy Vincent for featuring my artwork in our group... USA Photographers! 11/6/2017
Reid Callaway
Thank you Dora Sofia Caputo for Featuring my artwork in our Group.... Glimpses of Autumn! 11/6/2017
Reid Callaway
Thank you Judy Vincent for enjoying my artwork and for making this image one of your personal Favorites!
Reid Callaway
Thank you John M Bailey for featuring my artwork in our group...Images That Excite You! 11/6/2017
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Thank you John Bailey for appreciating my artwork and for making this image one of your personal Favorites!
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Thank you Ann for your kind words and for making this image one of your personal Favorites!