thrill wrote:Help me out here, fellas. Pretty much all of my camping, backpacking, hiking, et al has taken place in the west. Mostly Arizona, California, Colorado, Washington, Montana, and Idaho.
I am being tempted by an offer from my employer to help open an office in Nashville. What kind of outdoor recreation opportunities am I looking at in a 3-hour radius? I've driven through SMNP when I was a kid, but that's about it.
Land Between the Lakes (Ky/TN) - 1.5 hrs
Garden of the Gods (IL) - 3 hrs
Gashouse wrote:
Land Between the Lakes (Ky/TN) - 1.5 hrs
Garden of the Gods (IL) - 3 hrs
Tim wrote:
4.5 hours to Asheville.
2 hours to Chattanooga (supposedly a great outdoor city).
Thanks, guys.
I think there are good outdoor options from what i've seen. Or at least when I've travelled by or researched a trip the potential looked there. So different than the west, obviously. Dense forests, streams rivers. I really like that NC side of Smokies. All kinds of Wilderness areas and National forests. Some of it supposed to be about the most rugged hiking -a Joyce Kilmer and Shining Rock Wilderness. The summer can be brutal and not fun in the woods. (assuming its anything like MO).
No such thing as one-stop-browsing for outdoorsy stuff (maybe not a bad thing). a lot of different jurisdictions over the outdoors areas. here's a couple sites I occasionally kill time -when deskbound (A lot)
Do any of you subscribe (Pay$) to websites for trail/camping info? Seems like you can get plenty of info for free if you dig. I was wondering if it's better to just pony up. Alltrails, Outdoorproject?
This is a v good, free site for nerding out and doing tons of research if you already know where you want to go: http://www.hillmap.com/
I actually used it to set my mind at east that if the Cascadia Subduction Zone went off while I was at a coastal resort in extremly remote Western Washington, I could get to high ground easily within 10 minutes. You can use it in less neurotic ways, but it was cool to measure how close a high enough point to survive the tsunami was and use that to judge where I needed to go after the tremors stopped.
2017 was going to be really bad. That’s because 2015 was a “mast year,” when trees produce a ton of acorns. (Plant biologists are still figuring out how and why trees decide to mast.) The year after a mast year, the acorn-gnawing mouse population booms, and then the year after that—i.e., right now—the mouse blood–sucking tick population goes bonkers.
the entrance fee for a private vehicle would jump to $70 during peak season, from its current rate of $25 to $30.
The cost for a motorcycle entering the park could increase to $50, from the current fee of $15 to $25. The cost for people entering the park on foot or on bike could go to $30, up from the current rate of $10 to $15.
The cost of the annual pass, which permits entrance into all federal lands and parks, would remain at $80.
The proposal would affect the following 17 national parks during the 2018 peak season:
Arches
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Denali
Glacier
Grand Canyon
Grand Teton
Olympic
Sequoia & Kings Canyon
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Zion
Acadia
Mount Rainier
Rocky Mountain
Shenandoah
Joshua Tree
