This unique hiking guide to the southern Appalachian Mountains leads readers to explore the rich forest ecosystems and other natural communities encounter along the trail.

These thirty popular hikes in Virginia, North Carolina. South Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia, under the spell of the descriptive words of Steph Jeffries and Tom Wentworth take s new dimensions. Readers will start to notice and appreciate features of the forest that may have gone undetected before, threes canopies, forest floor, and other natural features and will more fully appreciate the biodiversity of the environment that make the Southern Appalachian region so special.

Stephanie B. Jeffries is a teaching Assistant Professor in the department of Forestry and Environmental Resources at North Carolina State University. Thomas R. Wentworth is Alumni Distinguished Undergraduate Professor of Plants and Microbial Biology at North Carolina State University.