Grotto Falls

We took advantage of the great Spring weather and went for a hike in the Smoky Mountains.  We went to Grotto Falls.

The falls are bigger in person than they appear in pictures.  You can walk behind the falls.

 

If you take the trail behind the falls you can continue hiking for another 14 miles to La Conte Lodge.  The only way they can get supplies to and from the lodge is to pack them in.  They use llamas for this.  We stopped at Grotto Falls but hiked back down with the llamas.  The llama in the back is named Chester.  It was the first time he'd made the hike so he was tired and kept sitting down on the trail until he was rested.

There are parts of the trail when you have to walk through streams to continue.

The trees are just starting to blossom in the mountains, but the grasses and wild flowers are in bloom.  It was a nice day in the mountains.