Great Smoky Mountains N. P. - USA

The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most popular National Park in the country and hosts well over ten-million annual visitors. It gets more annual visitors than the Grand Canyon, Yosemite, and Yellowstone combined. This beautiful mountain range reaches towering heights of nearly seven-thousand feet, but is famous for its magical, smoky haze. - in: https://smokymountains.com/park/

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park is a United States National Park that 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 border between Tennessee and North Carolina runs northeast to southwest through the centerline of the park. It is the most visited national park in the United States. The park was chartered by the United States Congress in 1934 and officially dedicated by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt in 1940.

The park was designated an International Biosphere Reserve in 1976, was certified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1983." - in: wikipedia

On this cards there's the Abrams Falls, one of the best trout streams in the Great Smoky Mountains. It was named after a Cherokee Indian Chief.

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On the back of the card: "Autumns colors reach their peak October 15-31 in the Smokies. By mid-September the foliage starts to change in the northern hardwood forest above 4500 feet before spreading into the hardwoods in lower elevations. Reds generally are red maple, pin cherry and mountain ash; yellows are American beech, yellow birch and yellow buckeye."

Did you know?

The majority of trees in the park are deciduous which make for an amazing show of color in the fall.

The last three weeks of October attract large number of sightseers for the fall color display.

Colors begin to change in higher elevations first and travel down the mountains to the lower elevations, making "peak" season difficult to predict with precision.

Fall color in the park's lower elevations is most spectacular; it includes sugar maple, scarlet oak, sweetgum, red mapleand hickories.