Did you know that more than 11 million people visited Great Smoky Mountains National Park last year? That number of visitors makes it the most visited park in the National Park System! (Yes, ahead of the Grand Canyon!) The park stretches over 520,000 acres between two states- North Carolina and Tennessee. And the beautiful landscape…

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Several years ago if you asked me about the National Park System I would have naïvely explained that our family isn’t super outdoorsy. (And by “outdoorsy” I mean that we don’t possess any crazy survival skills for being in the wild for extended periods of time.) Therefore, we didn’t include National Parks in our travel…

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5 years ago if you told me that one of my favorite travel activities would become visiting family-friendly National Parks- I would have called you crazy. I don’t camp. I don’t hike. In fact, I’m not even all that outdoorsy unless it involves sports. In other words, National Parks weren’t my dream destination. But that…

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