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Clingman's Dome LbNA #4531 (ARCHIVED)

Owner:Adoptable
Plant date:Jun 26, 2003
Location:
City:Cherokee
County:Swain
State:North Carolina
Boxes:1
Found by: Not yet found!
Last found:N/A
Last edited:Jun 26, 2003
This box takes about 20 minutes round-trip. With the kids along, it took more like 30. The walk itself is a quarter of a mile.

Start at the parking lot at Clingman's Dome in the Smokies. Instead of going up the paved path to the dome, head instead for the unpaved Forney Gap Trail located off to the left where the paved trail begins. The trail is well-marked.

Travel 1/10 mile to a fork in the trail.

At the split, don't go down
Check the sign, be AT bound.
(You may need tohold your nose
the treatment plant does not smell like a rose)

Evergreen with roots a-splay
Let's you know you're on your way.
Within sight on the trail ahead
Lies the hidden box on its rocky bed.

On the left-hand side of the trail
Is a stump pointing toward the dome.
On the stump's Northern side
In a fork, this box makes its home.