Hazel Creek (Great Smoky Mountains)
Hazel Creek is a tributary stream of the Little Tennessee River in the southwestern Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. The creek's bottomlands were home to several pioneer Appalachian communities and logging towns before its incorporation into the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Hazel Creek is now a back country campsite and historical area.
Hazel Creek (Great Smoky Mountains)
The Hazel Creek embayment along Fontana Lake, near Cable Branch
Backcountry Campsite 86 was once part of the town of Proctor
Campsite 84 at the confluence of Sugar Fork and Hazel Creek, once the site of a Cherokee hunting camp and later the town of Medlin
The Little Tennessee River is a 135-mile (217 km) tributary of the Tennessee River that flows through the Blue Ridge Mountains from Georgia, into North Carolina, and then into Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. It drains portions of three national forests— Chattahoochee, Nantahala, and Cherokee— and provides the southwestern boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Little Tennessee River in North Carolina
Henry Timberlake's 1765 Draught of the Cherokee Country, showing several Cherokee villages and towns located along the lower Little Tennessee River
Montreat College students explore the Little Tennessee River
Fort Loudoun
