Wetlands comprise less than 1% of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, yet they are found scattered throughout the entire park at both low and high elevations (870 to above 6600 feet) and account for an important part of the park’s biodiversity. Smokies’ wetlands mostly occur as isolated patches on both gently sloping and steep terrain, and range in size up to about 2 acres. They can be associated with one or more of a variety of water sources including streams, springs, seeps, vernal pools, overland flooding, groundwater saturation, and lakes. Community types are structurally and compositionally diverse and include emergent marshes, forested wetlands, high- and low-elevation seeps, sinkholes, rocky bars and shores, beaver pond marshes, and alluvial forests.