Climbing Clingmans Dome |
 After climbing Mt Mitchell, the highest peak in North Carolina, on Thursday, 29 October 2015, I drove west along the Blue Ridge Parkway, and spent the night in Cherokee, a small North Carolina town (with a population of a little more than 2,000) that’s the reservation home of the eastern band of Cherokee native Americans. The route I took the following morning is marked in yellow on this map: I drove north-west on US federal highway 441 for 15 miles / 24 kilometres to the North Carolina / Tennessee state line near Newfound Gap, then turned left onto the road that heads up towards the summit of Clingmans Dome and drove up it for roughly four miles / six kilometres prior to parking at the Fork Ridge Trailhead on the North Carolina side of the road. |