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#019 - Great Smoky Mountains, Part 3: Where to Stay | LeConte Lodge, Campgrounds & the Gateway Towns
There's exactly one place to sleep inside this park that isn't a tent or a trail shelter — and you can't drive to it, can't even take a shuttle. LeConte Lodge sits near 6,600 feet, reachable only on foot, up one of five trails, with propane lanterns for light and llamas hauling in the supplies. People wait a year for a bed there. That's the flavor of a park that never built a grand rail hotel and offers something stranger instead. This closes out the Wildlands Great Smoky Mountains trilogy.
Host Shawn Spainhour, a former Army officer, breaks down every way to stay. LeConte Lodge — the five…
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