When is the best time of the year to camp in Western North Carolina?

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Mike

i will be going backpacking in the back-country, near Highlands, NC...i was thinking sometime in April or May. i want to avoid the tourist season, but i don't want to go there when its freezing, either.

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My senior year in Boone it snowed Apr 11. The first snowfall is usually fall break in October. So basically check the weather. www.booneweather.com is the best site for weather.

May-Sept is the best time to camp. The weather is gorgeous. The tourist season in the high country is more October for fall than camping times. Are you going to the Highland Games? http://www.gmhg.org/ That would be an awesome thing to check out.

I'd wait til May though.

What are the best places in the Eastern U.S. to backpack or hike for multiple days?

k-y

See me and a couple of friends want to go backpacking in the woods, away from society, and see some pretty sites along the way. We want to enjoy it so I was looking more for a multiple day trip. Also, we would like to stay around Ky, Tn, Nc, Sc, Va, and some surrounding states. We want to camp but not the modern kind where you stay in a log cabin or even pay to stay somewhere, we want to just pitch a tent sorta thing.

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How about the Appalachian Trail, it starts in I believe Tennessee, and ends in Maine.
It has "shelters" every so often that are actually 3 sides of a cabin with the front wide open..they also have a wood floor. There are no bathroom's in them but usually there is one near by, they are also usually near water of some kind..lake..stream and are on a first come first serve basis.

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