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The Best Places to Take In the Night Sky in the Smoky Mountains

I don’t know that we can fully comprehend the beauty that exists in, above, and below the Smoky Mountains. From the wonders of the cave formations below the mountains, to the natural beauty of the deep greens of summer, the cornucopia of color in the fall, the view of the high mountains from a clear valley, or the majesty of the world below from the peak of Kuwohi.

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The bright shining stars of the constellations, the distant faint clusters of stars or nebulas or the occasional shooting star, the mountains on a clear, dark night offer a better light show than any fireworks devised in the mind of man.

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