Hiking Vacation in the Smokies
If you want to have the best hiking experience, you should head to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee where you will be excited with the various trails that the Smoky has. Treat yourself to a great hiking vacation in the mountains and enjoy the location considered to most as the most scenic and visited park in the United States. With the magnificent waves of mountains, who in their right mind would deny that fact?
Giving you and your friends a hiking vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains will surely be an excellent idea to strengthen the friendship bond. Besides, it would be a better idea rather than hanging in front of the flat screen or go bar hopping every weekend. Hiking itself can promote good health to the hiker and this healthy lifestyle as well as keeping you closer to the nature to really appreciate it.

Top of the Smokies at Clingmans Dome
The Great Smoky Mountains offer the hikers a lot more than what the first timers could have imagined. Most of the vacationers goes to the Smokies to go on a cabin vacation, ride on the auto tours around the park, trout fishing for the enthusiasts, witness the beautiful and incredible view of Cades Cove. The area is also full of historical landmarks such as the old mills and the iron forge built by one of the earliest people to ever settled in the mountains.
Other than the Smokies, another great destination for you to enjoy a hiking vacation would be the Rocky Mountain National Park, located in Colorado. The Colorado Rockies have the opposite feature from the Smokies. Where the Smokies are more to the greens of nature, Rockies are more of a splendour setting with rocky mountain views as far as the eyes can see.
Almost all year round vacationers can see the snow covered mountain peaks, at 14,000 feet above the ground. For the record, 60 mountain peaks at Colorado Rockies rise 12,000 feet above ground level. Another astonishing place to visit at the Rockies is Lake Chasm, located that the bottom of the Long’s Peak. The hike is one of the most challenging and hikers are advised to be well trained to climb up to Lake Chasm.