27px, we want 27. Please register or login . You'll find numerous peaks over 4,000 feet, a land characterized by steep, rugged terrain dissected by many streams and old drainages. They are usually steep and strenuous with a rough tread sometimes a challenge to find, but few places in the southern United States offers such outstanding backpacking opportunities.
Many people wander into the area from the popular, adjacent Standing Indian Basin.
Thirty-two miles of the Appalachian Trail passes through the Southern Nantahala following the ridgecrest of the Nantahala Range. Western North Carolina. Click here to find out how. Copyright Rodale, Inc. 2001.