Shenandoah National Park
• Blue Ridge Mountains - Northern Virginia
• Began as a resort
• Established 1935
Shenandoah National Park
• 197,411 acres
• 79,579 acres of Wilderness
• Skyline Drive - Blue Ridge Parkway
• Appalachian Trail
Great Smokey Mountain National Parks
• Great Smoky Mountains - Tennessee and North Carolina
• Largest Mountains east of the Black Hills
• 2000 ft. higher than the Blue Ridge
• 85 inches of precip./yr
• Temperature inversion - haze
• air quality = poor
Great Smokey Mountain National Parks
• Established 1934
• 520,269 acres - 70% wilderness
• U.S. 441
• Appalachian Trail
• Cherokee Nation
• Dollywood