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Tuesday, November 30, 2021

Chestnut Top Trail - Great Smoky Mountains National Park

 


Our mid-April 2021 visit to Great Smoky Mountains National Park continued with a short walk (less than ¼ mile) up the Chestnut Top Trail to view the spring wildflowers. The trailhead is located across the road from the Townsend Wye parking area just north of the intersection of Laurel Creek Road and Little River Gorge Road. The trail is much longer, but the wildflowers cover the hillside above the trailhead.

Purple Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida)

Star Chickweed (Stellaria pubera)

White Trillium (Trillium grandiflorum)

White Baneberry (Actaea pachypoda)

An unknown type of spring ephemeral

Yellow Trillium (Trillium luteum)

False Solomon's Seal (Maianthemum racemosum)

Another yellow trillium

Another white trillium

Greenery along the trail

Purple Phacelia (Phacelia bipinnatifida)

Closeup of Purple Phacelia

Closeup view of a yellow trillium

Wildflowers spilling across the trail

Ferns

Lots of roots along the trail

There is no entrance fee at Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

The park website is https://www.nps.gov/grsm/index.htm.

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