Educating readers about the region's heritage, vacation possibilities, and entertaining them with accounts of the authors' personal experiences, this guide covers the Great Smoky Mountains and the southern portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway. It also includes the beauty of northeast Georgia and cities and towns such as Asheville, Hendersonville and Cherokee, North Carolina, Jonesboro, Townsend and Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and Abingdon and Galax, Virginia. Illustrated.