Cades Cove & Cataloochee

January 13, 2009 ·

Michael Reichmann

Cades Cove

On the north side of the park liesCades Cove, a lovely area of open pastures and preserved homes and churches, now filled with grazing deer, and choked most days with lines of cars touring its narrow tree-lined lanes.

Cades Cove, Great Smoky National Park. September, 2000Photographed with a Hasselblad XPan and 90 mm lens on Provia 100F

It's possible that the wordbucolicwas coined when settlers first saw Cades Cove. This photograph was taken about 40 minutes after sunrise just as a fog bank was clearing from the valley. If you look closely (particularly in the larger version) you can see a deer in the field at the left of the frame.

About half-way round theCades Coveloop road is an unmarked and unpaved road on the right calledRich Mountain Road. It is a one-way shortcut out of the park towardTownsend. Otherwise, its claim to fame is a small break in the trees that offers this stunning view of the oldMissionary Baptist Church.

Blue Church, Cades ...

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