Throughout the Great Smokies and the eponymous national park, there are scattered remnants of forgotten towns, like Lost Cove, now only reachable by a long hike, or Elkmont, a once-thriving resort ...

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A quick drive from Charlotte, this park lets visitors gaze out over the surrounding mountains and down into an abandoned ...