Smoky Mountains Fall Color Tour: Guided Nature Walk
4.5
11 Ratings
Gatlinburg

Embark on a once-in-a-lifetime Fall Color Tour in the Smoky Mountains with A Walk In The Woods. Join our naturalist guides to experience the ancient treasures of the mountains and discover the best fall colors. Book now!

Duration: 4 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Clingmans Dome - Meet your guide at the Sugarland’s Visitors Center for your tour to experience the wonders of a Smoky Mountain Fall!
  • Sugarlands Visitors Center - Meet your guide at the Sugarland’s Visitors Center for your hiking tour to experience the wonders of a Smoky Mountain Fall!
  • Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Experience the wonders of a Smoky Mountain Fall!
What's Included
  • Snacks
  • In-vehicle air conditioning
  • All fees and/or taxes
  • Professional Guide
What's Not Included
  • Bottled water
  • Gratuity for your guide.
  • Rain Gear - We have emergency ponchos on hand if needed.
Additional Information

Since 1998, our naturalist guides have taken over 100,000 people into the Smokies to experience the sea of mountains. Experience these ancient treasures up close on this once in a lifetime trip! Your tour guides may include a former Park ranger, a former Appalachian Trail Thru Hiker, or biologist and geologists.
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Location
Sugarlands Visitor Center Bus Parking
Park Headquarters Road
We meet our guests at the Sugarland's Visitors Center in front of the benches by the Flag Pole. If we are picking you up from here, you will need a parking tag.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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(11 Ratings)
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Anjj345
Oct 3, 2024
Professionally managed company with excellent guides in a beautiful place! - We booked 3 tours in 3 days, from easy to moderate, and were not disappointed. This company is super professional, enthusiastic, responsive, friendly, informative, fun. We arrived just days after Hurricane Helene devastated parts of eastern TN and western NC and AWITW was all over it. They continually tracked the condition of roads and trails throughout the region and proactively emailed to change one of our itineraries because of flooding. They are focused on keeping you safe. We really enjoyed our two guides, Kels and Deb, and learned so much from them. Great Smoky Mountain National Park is large and very heavily traveled. Though millions go there yearly, only a fraction of the those hike, resulting in a huge number of cars trying to drive and park. Hiring these guys takes all the hassle out of it. Highly recommended!
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Rtaftmilby12457
Nov 6, 2022
Great hike! - The trail guide was very friendly, and knowledgeable about the trail, the trees and the geology. He was very patient, took time to explain history and science regarding the venue.
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Family
Oct 14, 2022
Great way to learn how the Great Smoky Mountains became a National park - We took this tour with Ken on October 8 & had a great time. After meeting at the Sugarlands Visitors Center we made a short drive to the trailhead & then started our walk along the Little River. Ken was extremely knowledgeable about the trail & the park so we learnt a lot. Granted we could have done the hike on our own, but we wouldn’t have known the park history at all. Well worth doing to learn how the Great Smoky Mountains became a National park.
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Landisg2016
Oct 29, 2021
Time to see some Color - Excellent guide, Ken. Lived in the area. Knew the history of the park and gave us good recommendations for local hiking. Highly recommend Ken if you take this excursion.
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Ninner20
Oct 27, 2020
Great hike! - Great hike, perfect trail, very peaceful. We had a couple options for the trail and we are glad we chose the one less travelled! Our guide, Charles, was very informative and knowledgeable. Would book again with A Walk in the Woods.
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Aandkl
Oct 25, 2020
A Walk In the Woods #1 - This was such a great hike through “A Walk In the Woods.” Our guide Sam chose a perfect trail with an assortment of colors, she enlightened us with valuable context and facts about the park’s history, vegetation, and wildlife.
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_mjowilson
Oct 24, 2020
Wow! This is a great hiking tour on the Appllachian Trail and mountains! - Our guide was Charles and was very knowledgeable and helped us have an awesome 4 hour hike. It was a wonderful tour and great memory!!
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Drew
Oct 26, 2019
Smokey Mountain Hike - Erik Soltan wa an excellent guide. His knowledge of the mountains, ecology, and people skills were excellent and make the hike very interesting.
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Daydream33421308231
Oct 6, 2022
You could do this without the guide - Beautiful views! This tour was a little misleading- so here’s what you can expect: We met at the visitors center, only to follow our guide by car for an hour??? Why didn’t they have a van for everyone to ride together? Then there were 4 elderly women on our hike. This is a 2 mile down the mountain and then 2miles back up and a pretty challenging walk back up. We started at 10:00 and it was 40* very chilly. It took just under 4 hours for the hike and add 2 hours drive time. Our guide was a little new and did not have a whole lot of information to share. She provided snacks at the destination and that was nice. You could drive to Clingmans Dome and walk the trail without a guide and save $$$
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Yakkundi
Oct 16, 2022
Buyers beware! Read completely before booking! - This tour is not what we expected. We both needed to drive in our own car following the guide! 230 dollars for this was a real waste of money.You really don’t need a guide to drive to Clingman’s dome. Our guide was a young lady , was really nice. It was too late to cancel the trip.
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