Dec 7, 2007
Indulge in a winter wonderland of free activities at the greatest national park east of the Mississippi
In a recent post, I exhorted you to get out there and enjoy some of the bounty of our national parks this winter. I've since discovered that the gateway town to at least one park, Pigeon Forge, Tennessee at the Great Smoky Mountains, goes all-out to entice wintertime visitors with a week's worth of amazing free events, workshops, and guided hikes.
Pigeon Forge's annual Wilderness Week (Jan 12-19 in 2008) brings some 100 experts to town (or out of the local woodwork) to conduct free-of-charge lectures on subjects from local Civil War sites to regional biodiversity, workshops on everything from birding by ear to nature photography, and lessons as disparate as fly fishing and mandolin or dulcimer playing. There are also six to ten daily guided hikes offered in the park ranging from 11-mile mountain treks to in-the-field photography-shooting workshops to evening Owl Prowls. And to repeat: the best part is that all of it is free of charge.
For more information and precise schedules, contact tel. 800/WINTERFEST or www.mypigeonforge.com/winterfest-wilderness.asp.
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Pigeon Forge's annual Wilderness Week (Jan 12-19 in 2008) brings some 100 experts to town (or out of the local woodwork) to conduct free-of-charge lectures on subjects from local Civil War sites to regional biodiversity, workshops on everything from birding by ear to nature photography, and lessons as disparate as fly fishing and mandolin or dulcimer playing. There are also six to ten daily guided hikes offered in the park ranging from 11-mile mountain treks to in-the-field photography-shooting workshops to evening Owl Prowls. And to repeat: the best part is that all of it is free of charge.
For more information and precise schedules, contact tel. 800/WINTERFEST or www.mypigeonforge.com/winterfest-wilderness.asp.
Write and read comments about this post.
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