25 June 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General, Palaces, Castles, Manors, Parks, Environment, UNESCO World Heritage
Reading Time: 7 minutesClingman’s Dome Observation Tower, the highest point both in Tennessee and along the Appalachian Trail, in Great Smoky Mountains National Park © Scott Basford
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is an American
national park in the
southeastern United States, with parts in
North Carolina and
Tennessee. The park 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 park contains some of the highest mountains in eastern North America, including
Clingmans Dome,
Mount Guyot, and
Mount Le Conte. The border between the two states runs northeast to southwest through the center of the park. The
Appalachian Trail passes through the center of the park on its route from
Georgia to
Maine. With 14.1 million visitors in 2021, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the United States.
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18 May 2022 | Author/Destination: North America / Nordamerika | Rubric: General
Reading Time: 10 minutesSouth Gay Street © Brian Stansberry/cc-by-3.0
Knoxville is a city in and the
county seat of
Knox County in the
U.S. state of
Tennessee. As of the
2020 United States census, Knoxville’s population was 190,740, making it the largest city in the
East Tennessee Grand Division and the state’s third largest city after
Nashville and
Memphis. Knoxville is the principal city of the
Knoxville Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had an estimated population of 869,046 in 2019. Knoxville is the home of the flagship campus of the
University of Tennessee, whose sports teams, the
Tennessee Volunteers, are popular in the surrounding area. Knoxville is also home to the headquarters of the
Tennessee Valley Authority, the
Tennessee Supreme Court‘s courthouse for
East Tennessee, and the corporate headquarters of several national and regional companies. As one of the largest cities in the
Appalachian region, Knoxville has positioned itself in recent years as a repository of
Appalachian culture and is one of the gateways to the
Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
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