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About this trip
Trip Duration: 4 days, 3 nights
Difficulty Level: Beginner
We’re excited to announce our first trip to the most popular national park in the US - the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. We'll explore one of the most biodiverse national parks while hiking and exploring beautiful trails and building sisterhood along the way. If you’re an East Coast Ma’wa girl, this trip is for you - don’t miss out and join us for an unforgettable adventure. For more trip details, including itinerary highlights, please visit our website: www.mawacollective.com/trips/smoky-mountains-summer-trip
Accommodation + Transportation
There is one large lodge/home reserved for this trip with 7 bedrooms and over 7 bathrooms. Each bedroom has a different configuration of beds - you may register for your preferred sleeping arrangement via our booking platform.
The lodging reserved for this trip is located in Gatlinburg, Tennessee - about a 1 hour drive from McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville. The Great Smoky Mountains National Park surrounds the city of Gatlinburg with the nearest gate less than 10 minutes away from your lodging. Participants should be prepared for some driving/commuting over the course of the weekend to reach the hikes and activities planned in the itinerary.
If you will be flying in for this trip, we recommend flying into McGhee Tyson Airport (TYS): arrival must be no later than 1 pm on Friday, July 25th, and departure no earlier than 1 pm on Monday, July 28th.
Carpools: While we can assist with arranging carpools among participants, we cannot guarantee that every Trip will have local participants that are able to volunteer their personal cars and offer a carpool. In some cases, a rental car may be the only option for carpooling. Some participants will need to volunteer as drivers for the rentals and the cost of the rental car is not covered by Ma’wa Collective.
Trip Activities + Difficulty Level
This is an Beginner Level trip. The hikes planned are slightly challenging but can be done by those with strong physical fitness. Good physical fitness and proper footwear is essential.
Itinerary highlights include:
- Visiting the Kuwohi Observation Tower, the highest point in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
- Hiking along the Tennessee and North Carolina state borders
- Visiting early homestead cabins and other Appalachian structures
- Exploring though lush forests and hiking behind cascading waterfalls
*Our itinerary may be subject to slight changes throughout the weekend due to delays, weather, or factors outside of our control.
Important Policies
- All Deposits and Installment Payments are NON-REFUNDABLE
- All Ma'wa Collective trips are considered group trips. Unless otherwise noted in the Itinerary or by a Trip Lead, you are expected to remain with your group at all times. Participants are not permitted to leave the group and engage in activities outside the published itinerary. Any participant found in violation of this may be subject to dismissal from the trip and/or future Ma'wa Collective trips.
What’s included
- Accomodations
- Food
- Activities
What’s not included
- TransportationTransportation is NOT included in your registration or covered by Ma'wa Collective:
Available Packages
This package offers a queen or king sized bed that you will be sharing with another trip participant within a shared room.
If you will be attending this trip with a friend or relative and would like to indicate your preference to share a bed with that person, please indicate this in the Notes/Comments section at the end of booking. Otherwise, all sleeping arrangements will be determined by the Trip Lead.
This package offers a bunk bed in a shared room.
If you have any mobility restrictions and/or disability that would expressly prevent you from accessing the top bunk of a bunk bed, please indicate this in the Notes/Comments section of your registration