Getting out onto the trails is the best way to explore our Ridge and Valley and the Blue Ridge ecoregions. Check out these photos from recent excursions.
We'll be planning some field trips and hikes, so be on the lookout!
Big Creek Area GSMNP, NC
Wildlife along the trail -- can you find the creature?
See the shrub layer shadow? Can you name that plant? Forests are important.
Little Greenbrier Schoolhouse Trail GSMNP, TN
Laurel Thicket
Crossing the creek
Leftovers of a Homestead Entrance
Little Greenbrier School
Tallulah Gorge State Park, GA
View from the overlook.
Suspension Bridge
Metal stairway to the bottom of the gorge.
View opposite of the State Park.
Caesars Head State Park, SC
Caesars Head Reference Marker
View towards Table Rock State Park from Caesars Head Overlook
Tom Miller Trail -- creek at bottom of the trail (Mountain Bridge Wilderness Area)
Sunlight through the forest -- notice the layers
Panther Creek State Park, TN
Appalachia Class Field Trip Hiking through the Seven Sinkholes Trail in the Rain.
Trooping On
Sinkhole 7 -- notice the saplings finding a home.
Living on the slope
- Mountain Life
- Log Cabin Village Pioneer School
- A Day in the One Room School
- Children's Lives at the Turn of the Century
- Life in a One-Room Arkansas School
