Laurel Falls

Sarah's brother and his girlfriend are in town for a few days for Mary Grace's birthday. Sarah decided to take them to the Smokies today and she invited Carter and me to come along. We hiked up to Laurel Falls since it is a paved trail which meant we could push the kids in the strollers. It's not the smoothest ride, but it is 1.3 miles uphill into the woods so it's hard to expect much.

Luckily there were still a few available parking spaces when we got to the trailhead. This is a really popular hike because it's not too difficult and it's really close to Gatlinburg. The trail was crowded but when we were at the falls there weren't too many people there.



Carter only slept the 10 minutes on the drive to Sarah's house this morning so he was exhausted. I thought he'd sleep on the drive but there was too much going on that he didn't want to miss. He did really well though for how tired he was. He finally passed out on the hike back to the car.


We stopped in Pigeon Forge for lunch and made it home around 2:45 pm. Carter didn't sleep on the drive back either but finally passed out for about an hour once we got home.

I dug out an old photo of Brian and me from the first time we hiked to Laurel Falls. This was taken in March of 2002. The picture was taken from the lower section of the falls. Today we were standing up by the bridge that crosses over the falls that you can sort of see at the very top of the old picture.