Middle Prong Trail

Middle Prong Trail is a 8.18-mile out-and-back foot trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. It climbs 1,234 ft to a high point of 3,183 ft. Difficulty: strenuous, from the NPS hiking-rating formula.

Middle Prong Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Photo: Gary Millar from Townsend TN, USA · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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