THE AUDUBON BULLETIN 2\ 
Photograph by Orpheus M. Schantz 
EARLY MORNING IN THE HIGH SMOKIES 
(New road to the top of the divide) 
of them unknown in the North, and when Autumn comes, a display of 
color so brilliant that one cannot adequately describe it. 
No large appropriations have yet been made for the building of roads 
and trails through the park by the Park National Directors. ‘The State 
of ‘Tennessee, however, anticipating the need, has constructed many miles 
of magnificent highways into the heart of the Smokies, one of which has 
been cut through the primeval forest to the crest of the divide between 
North Carolina and Tennessee, to an altitude of 5,047 feet, where one 
may stand with one foot in either state and gaze north across to Leconte 
and south into the distant Nantahala range of North Carolina. 
From this point may be followed a trail in either direction along 
the knife ridge crest of the state boundary line southeast six miles to 
Clingmans Dome (6,642 feet) and northeast to Mt. Collins (6,400 feet), 
with a possibility of seeing and hearing a Raven or meeting up with a 
black “bar.” On either side only a short distance from the trail the slopes 
drop sharply, north into Tennessee and south into North Carolina. 
Here may be seen the Carolina Junco, Winter Wren, the Great 
Pileated Woodpecker (Log Cock), the Yellow-breasted Chat, rare war- 
blers, both the Kinglets and the Nuthatches. 
The Smokies have an unusually varied small mammal and reptile 
population and a wealth of insect life, many species being connecting links 
between the prehistoric forms and those of today. Scientists state that the 
