Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Albright Grove Loop

MAL01

Dist: 3.90 mi	Points: 318	Calories: none
Time: none	Speed: 0.0 mph	Pace: 0:00 / mi

MAL001

Location: 35.769379°, -83.266693°
Gradually ascend on Maddron Bald Trail (gravel road) through hemlocks and rhododendrons; Buckeye Creek rushes on L

MAL002

Location: 35.762699°, -83.270897°
Cabin of farmer Willis Baxter (c.1889); park historians believe this small home was built from a single American Chestnut tree. (A blight has wiped out these massive giants)

MAL003

Location: 35.755470°, -83.271698°
Straight @ 4-way

MAL004

Location: 35.747070°, -83.278511°
On R, large piles of rocks act as old fence lines; chickweed and showy orchid flourish in open stands of poplar, maple

MAL005

Location: 35.743778°, -83.279137°
Stand of large hemlock with blue cohosh, trout lilies, hepatica, and trillium carpeting forest floor below

MAL006

Location: 35.737869°, -83.278084°
Cross Indian Camp Creek on log footbridge; climb steep (maybe wet) trail

MAL007

Location: 35.737339°, -83.279716°
L @ Y, starting Albright Grove Loop Trail (named after 2nd NPS director Horace Albright, an early advocate for this and other national parks E of the Mississippi)

MAL008

Location: 35.735260°, -83.275513°
R @ T

MAL009

Location: 35.735199°, -83.276779°
After short climb, check out two large silverbell trees on R whose flaking bark shines blue

MAL010

Location: 35.735031°, -83.279694°
Path drops 200 ft. on return back to WPT 7; backtrack to trailhead