Southern States of the U.S.A

Photos from the southern states of the USA including Tennessee and Georgia. Cades Cove in the fog of an autumn morning as well as Downtown Nashville or the Natchez Trace Parkway during the summer. You can find a few more photos from the North Carolina side of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park here South-Eastern States of the U.S.A

Newfound Gap, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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Newfound Gap, Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Pentax K-3 • ¹⁄₈₀ sec • ƒ / 8,0 • 27 mm • ISO 200 • smc PENTAX-DA 18-55mm F3.5-5.6 AL WR Sevier County, Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States of America Newfound Gap is with its elevation of 5046 feet the lowest drivable gap through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Originally it was believed that Indian Gap, about 1.5 miles west of Newfound Gap, was the lowest pass through the Great Smoky Mountains. This was found invalid in 1872 when a Swiss geographer, Arnold Henry Guyot, measured many of the Smoky Mountain's elevations with a barometer and discovered that Newfound Gap actually was the lowest point. uuid="74E365B1-8A6E-4A23-9CA6-3613CD578903" id="United States of America lilleulven.com _K3_3136.dng Southern USA Lilleulven.com"

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