This book was originally written and printed trail-by-trail as I hiked them and drove them. I kept records, writing down events and items I felt were significant and then printed the trail guides crossways on an 8 X 10 inch page of paper, folded them three ways and sold to local merchants who would then resell them for about one dollar each. I tried several titles including “Favorite Hikes of the Smokies”, and a few others, like “Easy Hikes in the Mountains” and “Macon County Trails”, although a number of the trails, especially those on the Blue Ridge Parkway and some of the Appalachian Trail were well outside of Macon County. Now finally, all those old trails are for the first time gathered together on this web page in their new home
“Trails in the Southern Mountains: Hiking and Driving in the Blue Ridge”.