Smokey Mountains National Park is an amazing national park located in Tennessee state. This park is most famous for its beautiful forest covered mountains. America’s most visited national park, which rests on the boarder of Tennessee and North Carolina, is also known for their vast amount of plant and animal wildlife.
The park’s diverse wildlife includes a variety of plants and animals. The Smokies mascot, the American Black Bear, is the most famous resident of the park. Great Smoky Mountains National Park has hundreds of black bears that live within its protection. Though populations are variable, biologists estimate approximately 1,500 bears live in the park, a density of approximately two bears per square mile. Other common animals in the park include the white-tailed deer, groundhog, chipmunk, and some squirrel and bat species.
Plants in the Smokey Mountains National Park are one of their biggest attractions; differences in elevation, rainfall, temperature, and geology in the mountains provide an ideal habitat for over 1,600 species of flowering plants, 100 native tree species and over 100 native shrub species as well. In the spring months, ephemeral wildflowers bloom in the forests right before trees lose their leaves that cover the forest floor. In the summer,there are beautiful flowers that bloom on the mountains and in the higher elevations.
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