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Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Smokey Mtns to Fall Creek Falls State Park

On Monday morning, we woke up to more rain, and headed out of our campground without getting any pictures of our site.  Luckily, I hooked up the car on Sunday night, and did not have to do that in the rain. 

We left the campground and headed toward I-40, and headed west through Knoxville.  We stopped at a Walmart at Rockwood, TN, parked the Bus, and toured the backroads in the car. 

We set our GPS to find a local state park, Frozen Head State Park.  After driving on a lot of small roads, we finally saw a sign and thought maybe we were there!  It turned out to be a prison!!

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We continued on a road just past the prison, and it went on for 25 miles of curves, hills and sights.  We eventually did pass a sign that said we were “leaving Frozen Head SP”, although we never saw an entrance, state park buildings or campgrounds.  The sights were pretty good though:

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We finally got back to the Interstate, and the trees showed the beginning of fall color:

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As we got closer to the Fall Creek Falls SP, which is at a pretty high elevation, the road got steeper and more hilly, but the scenery was pretty:

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We plan to check into the SP campground, and spend 2 or maybe 3 nights.

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