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Overnight Backpacking in the Smokies
Overnight Backpacking in the Smokies
Overnight Backpacking in the Smokies
Overnight Backpacking in the Smokies
Overnight Backpacking in the Smokies

Overnight Backpacking in the Smokies

By A Walk in the Woods
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Overview

Leave the road far behind for stress free, guided backpacking in the Smoky Mountains.
New to Backpacking?
Avoid the growing pains of learning backpacking skills through the school of hard knocks. Our groups are small enough to allow us to get to know each other and to travel as a team while gaining confidence and trust in the process. Wilderness backpacking is the most rewarding way to experience a bit of real America. Because you do it on your own two feet, you’ll take home a dramatic sense of accomplishment that flows into your daily life.
Been backpacking for years?
Try travelling with your own naturalist, learning more about the forest you love. You’ll learn how to identify plants useful for food and medicine and what to do if lost in the woods. Additionally, learn how to avoid getting struck by lightening during a thunderstorm, how to cure headaches naturally and everything you need to make your trips through the wilderness safer and more enjoyable.

Activity location

  • A Walk In The Woods
    • 441 East Parkway
    • 37738-3007, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Sugarlands Visitor Center Bus Parking
    • 107 Park Headquarters Road
    • 37738, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States

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What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedYou will be provided with a dinner and a breakfast in the form of specialised, freeze dried backpacking meals. Lunches are snacks on the trail.
  • What's includedWhat's includedBars, trail mix, fruit leather. Snacks vary. Please let us know if you have dietary restrictions.
  • What's includedWhat's includedProfessional guide
  • What's includedWhat's includedAll necessary gear included. This includes a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad and backpack. Guides carry 1st aid kit, stove and filter for the group.
  • What's includedWhat's includedYou will be provided with a dinner and a breakfast in the form of specialised, freeze dried backpacking meals. Lunches are snacks on the trail.
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedService charge
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedTransport
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedLunch
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedStart your trip with at least 1 litre of water. Guides will be able to filter water along the way.

Know before you book

  • Not recommended for travellers with spinal injuries
  • Not recommended for pregnant travellers
  • Not recommended for travellers with poor cardiovascular health
  • Travellers should have a high level of physical fitness
  • This trip requires a 2 person minimum to operate. If you are travelling solo, you may join into an existing tour or pay the 2 person rate.
  • You will be asked to sign a waiver.

Activity itinerary

A Walk In The Woods
  • 3h
  • Admission ticket included
A Walk in the Woods Smoky Mountain guides have been helping guests make lasting memories on backpacking and camping trips, driving tours and guided hikes in the Smoky Mountains since 1998. Our local, naturalist guides are experts in all things Smokies! Once you book your trip, you will be sent paperwork that we need filled out by you and everyone in your party within 48 hours. We will need that paperwork filled out and returned as soon as possible. You will receive a conditioning guide, a packlist upon booking and meeting location and route information closer to the time of your trip.
Great Smoky Mountains National Park
  • 12h
  • Admission ticket included
Everything you wanted to know but were too afraid to ask! Turn that curiosity into knowledge with a one night guided backpacking trip in the Smoky Mountains. Learn everything about the exciting and challenging sport of backpacking while meeting other people. On this trip, you will learn all the steps needed to become a proficient backpacker. Find out what to pack, how to pack and how to wear your pack for the most comfort. Learn how to use the best gear and what to do in the event that things don’t go as planned. If the weather changes or your gear doesn’t work well, you’ll be prepared. Identifying wild plants, which ones are edible, how to cure headaches and getting relief from poison ivy are all things you will learn along the way. We’ll start with a brief class on backpacking and apply it in real life.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESA Walk In The Woods
    • 441 East Parkway
    • 37738-3007, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLESugarlands Visitor Center Bus Parking
    • 107 Park Headquarters Road
    • 37738, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States

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