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The Storybook Trail of the Smokies will wind against a backdrop of peaceful forest and rushing waterways. NPS photos
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park hopes to help visitors experience the Smokies story in a new way thanks to a partnership with the University of Tennessee Extension Institute of Agriculture and the Great Smoky Mountains Association.
The Storybook Trail of the Smokies, an initiative to promote literacy in nature, will be open to visitors from April 3 to May 30. As they walk the 1-mile Cosby Nature Trail near Cosby Campground, visitors will read a Smokies-themed book via trailside activities and on-the-trail story pages displayed for them to read along the way.
Smokies Storybook Trail combines reading and hiking
Young readers and hikers, the smokies has a new adventure for you! You are invited to take a trek on the Storybook Trail. Author: Leslie Ackerson Updated: 6:55 AM EDT April 2, 2021
SEVIER COUNTY, Tenn. Grab your book and those hiking boots because this new initiative is combining a love of reading and nature!
This spring, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is inviting young visitors to read a Smokies-themed book and then participate in trailside activities.
The Storybook Trail is an initiative that the park and University of Tennessee Extension Institute of Agriculture created to promote literacy in nature.