Tactile exhibits are designed for vision-impaired visitors but are popular among others, too. Brochures are available for each trail. The park has 10 developed picnic areas. Pick one with trails associatedwith it and pack your grill or campstove, along with the food that registers appropriately on your personal gourmet meter, and prepare and eat a leisurely meal. Then use the picnic ground as a base from which to explore adjacent trails and walk off the calories.
Bike rentals are available at the campground.
If walking or biking isn't appealing, consider these intriguingalternatives. Have a picnic afterward. If there is a single element that defines the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, it's water from 50 to 83 inches rainfall annually, depending on elevation. Combined with the park's rugged topography, it naturally results in a wide array of waterfalls, cascades and seeps that vary in size and noise. Some visitors, sitting eyes closed against a gianttree, contend the noise they hear is actually waterfall talk, the voice of the mountains.