Guided Backpacking | Smoky Mountains and Beyond
Avoid the growing pains of learning backpacking skills through the school of hard knocks. On our guided backpacking trips, our groups are small enough to allow us to get to know each other and to travel as a team while gaining confidence and trust in the process. Wilderness backpacking is the most rewarding way to experience a bit of real America. Because you do it on your own two feet, you’ll take home a dramatic sense of accomplishment that flows into your daily life. You’ll learn how to identify plants useful for food and medicine and what to do if lost in the woods.
Learn valuable knowledge to take into your own backpacking trip.
Additionally, learn how to avoid getting struck by lightening during a thunderstorm, how to cure a headache naturally and everything you need to make your trips through the wilderness safer and more enjoyable. These hands on experiences are like learning about the brush strokes in a painting. When you emerge from your guided backpacking trip, you will truly see the forest for the trees, the plants, the mushrooms, the animals and so much more.
Guided Backpacking 101
Women in Wilderness 101
Synchronous Firefly Backpacking
Smoky Mountain Backpacking Adventure
Women in Wilderness 2 Night
Duration: Up to you
Cost: Trips start at $794. Additional charges apply for trips requiring transportation. Discounts available for parties of 2 or more and for additional nights.
We will design a personalized adventure based on your abilities, experience and expectations. The process starts with a questionnaire about yourself, what you want to experience and what you want to take away with you. From this we will build an excursion tailored just for you and your group.
Custom Backpacking Trips
All guided backpacking trips include a professional naturalist guide and all necessary gear. We can provide you with a tent, sleeping bag, sleeping pad and backpack. Your guide will carry a water filter, stove, fuel and first aid kit for the group.
The GSMNP requires parking tags for any vehicle parked longer than 15 minutes inside the Park. You can get your daily or weekly parking tag through us (a $1 fee will be applied if we purchase and print your tag) or here.
Guided Backpacking Trip Cancellation Policy:
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