Mount Sterling Ridge Trail

Mount Sterling Ridge Trail is a 10.54-mile out-and-back foot trail in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee. It climbs 720 ft to a high point of 5,679 ft. Difficulty: strenuous, from the NPS hiking-rating formula.

Mount Sterling Ridge Trail, Great Smoky Mountains National Park
Photo: Ernesto Recuerdo and Michael Caterino · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

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