Smoky Mountains

Hiking Club

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We Explore, Enjoy, and Protect the Great Smokies.

Our Club members are passionate about hiking! Our missions also include education about the outdoors and advocacy for crucial conservation issues. In addition, we proudly maintain 102 miles of Appalachian Trail in the Smokies and Nantahala National Forest.

Join one of our weekly hikes in the beautiful, rugged Smokies and surrounding natural areas here in East Tennessee. Try your hand at some high-elevation trail maintenance on the Appalachian Trail. Participate in conservation efforts to preserve our natural heritage.

SMHC offers adventure and fun for all kinds of people - like you. Join us!

We welcome visitors on our hikes. Please click here to read our updated COVID guidelines.

Upcoming events

America/New_York
New Member History Hike: Old Sugarlands Trail to Cherokee Orchard Road

01/18/2025 9:00 AM

Sugarlands Visitors Center, Gatlinburg, GSMNP
America/New_York
Trillium Gap to Brushy Mountain

01/25/2025 8:30 AM

Rainbow Falls trailhead A, Gatlinburg, GSMNP
America/New_York
Stinging Fork Falls Section of Cumberland Trail

01/26/2025 8:45 AM

Piney Creek Cumberland Trail trailhead, 700 Shut in Gap Road, Spring City, TN, 37381

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Donations

You can make a tax-deductible donation to the Smoky Mountains Hiking Club through our donation form.

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Special thanks to Dick Ketelle, Ann Farrar and Randy Mitchell for sharing their photographs with us to be featured on the site. If you have some hiking or trail maintenance photos that you'd like to share, send them to tech-team@smhclub.org.

For information about the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, visit the NPS website or call the information line at (865) 436-1200.

Smoky Mountains Hiking Club

PO Box 51592

Knoxville, TN 37950-1592

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