Welcome to Great Smoky Mountains National Park! This book will introduce you to a wonderful place full of life and history. You will see wildflowers bordering the trails, playful waterfalls tumbling from mountainsides, elk and deer grazing in the meadows, and mottled salamanders hiding in the creeks. Visit grassy balds where the Cherokee people hunted. Sit in the small houses where mountain farmers raised their families. Explore vast forests thick with trees. Your adventure in the Smokies begins right here!