Maximize your Smoky Mountains experience with the oldest and best guided tour company in the area! Whether you are seeking a unique adventure, to expand your knowledge and skills, or simply a peaceful encounter with nature at its finest, come discover the Jewel of the Park System, the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A Walk In The Woods is a full range tour guide service geared to making your time in the Smokies as wonderful as possible. Emphasizing the teaching of natural history, this is A Walk In The Woods' eighteenth year offering spectacular trips into the Smokies. Our expert guides will take you on a once in a lifetime Smoky Mountain Tour. Your experience may include incredible vistas, gentle cascades, waterfalls, majestic ancient forests, crystal clear mountain streams, old home sites, graveyards or hidden trails.

We are experts in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, medicinal and edible uses of wild plants and mushrooms, wild animals and their habits, backpacking, primitive skills, outdoor survival, and local human history, including the Cherokee and early settlers.

All of our services help make your trip to the Smoky Mountains rewarding and fun. We offer a large selection of Smoky Mountain tours including; interpretive guided nature walks, guided hikes, birding and salamander treks, hiker shuttle service in and around the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Appalachian Trail support, trip planning, camping and backpacking equipment rental, guided backpacking trips, classes and seminars. Our goal is to make the Great Smoky Mountains National Park come alive for you.

A Walk in the Woods has been building Smoky Mountain memories for our clients since 1998 as a full-time guide service in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

A Walk in the Woods is starting our 19th year of business. In that time we have safely helped over 100,000 people enjoy the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Mission Statement: A Walk In The Woods is dedicated to raising environmental awareness through direct, positive experiences with nature.

We have been featured on Samantha Brown's Travel Channel Program, on National Geographic Globe Trekkers, NBC Nightly News, Turner Broadcasting International, Backpacker Magazine, Endless Vacation, USA Today, AAA magazine Home and Away, National Geographic Adventurer, Outside Magazine, in the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, Shape Magazine, Women's Health, Southern Living, Indianapolis Star, Chicago Tribune, Ohio Dispatch, London's Sun Times and the Independent, Atlanta Journal and Constitution and more. We have received Trip Advisor Certificate of Excellence every year since 2010 and in 2011 we were awarded TripAdvisor's Travelers' Choice Awards best destinations. In 2012, we were given the Top Guide award through REI Adventures, the first guide service in the entire Eastern US to have ever received this prestigious award.

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