Gatlinburg Vacation part 7: Fern Branch Falls

This post is the seventh in a series about our vacation to Gatlinburg, Tennessee and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.  Look for more posts of trip from me, here is Part 6 and Part 8.

One of my favorite days of our trip was an unplanned day.  On our first day, Husband picked up Family Hiking in the Smokies: Time Well Spent at the Sugarlands Visitors Center.  The book breaks down a ton of different hiking options with how hard it will be for kids of different ages, what you'll see along the way, how long the hike will take, and more.

With that knowledge, we headed to the Greenbriar section of the park for Porter's Creek Trail and Fern Branch Falls.  Without this book, I highly doubt we would have headed to these locations.  I just tried to grab some links on the national park website and came up short.  The book described these paths as "off the beaten path" and considering how few people we met along the way, and the lack of links, I'd wholeheartedly agree.

An off shoot of the trail lead to a historic farm site and cabin, there was a cemetery along the way.  We followed a river up the mountain.  When we got to the water fall, it was beautiful.