The AT runs 72.371 miles in the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. The cumulative climb from Fontana to Davenport Gap is about 18,000 feet. The mileage profile below is based Robert Lochbaum's wheel-measured trail data (2007). Bob's data is also used in the "brown book", Hiking Trails of the Smokies.
Mile Feature 0 Fontana/GSMNP boundary 0.7 Lakeshore Trail 4.0 Shuckstack 4.4 Lost Cove Trail/Sasafras Gap 5.3 BC113 Birch Spring campsite 7.5 Gregory Bald Trail 7.6 Doe Knob 9.0 Ekaneetlee Gap 10.7 Mollies Ridge Shelter 10.9 Devils Tater Patch 12.8 Big Abrams Gap 13.9 Russell Field Shelter/Trail 16.0 Mt Squires 16.8 Spence Field Shelter/Eagle Creek Trail/Bote Mtn Trail 17.1 Jenkins Ridge Trail 17.9 Rocky Top 18.6 Thunderhead 21.2 Starkey Gap 22.0 Sugartree Gap 23.0 Derrick Knob Shelter 23.3 Greenbrier Ridge Trail 25.4 Cold Spring Knob 25.7 Miry Ridge Trail 25.9 Buckeye Gap 28.6 Silers Bald Shelter 28.8 Silers Bald 29.0 Welch Ridge Trail 30.3 Double Spring Shelter 30.9 Goshen Prong Trail 32.8 Clingmans Dome bypass Trail 33.1 Clingmans Dome Trail 33.2 Clingmans Dome 35.2 Collins Gap 36.2 Mt Collins 36.3 Sugarlands Mt Trail 36.5 Mt Collins Shelter 36.6 Fornery Ridge Trail 39.3 Indian Gap/Road Prong Trail 41.0 Newfound Gap 42.7 Sweat Heifer Trail 43.5 Mt Ambler 43.7 Boulevard Trail 44.1 Icewater Spring Shelter 45.5 Dry Sluice Trail 47.6 False Gap 49.1 Laurel Top 51.5 Hughes Ridge Trail/Pecks Corner Shelter 52.4 Eagle Rocks 54.3 Mt Sequoyah 55.9 Mt Chapman 56.7 Tricorner Shelter/Balsam Mt Trail 58.0 Mt Guyot 59.0 Old Black 60.5 Snake Den Ridge Trail 62.8 Camel Gap Trail 64.0 Cosby Knob 64.4 Cosby Knob Shelter 65.1 Low Gap Trail 67.2 Mt Cammerer Trail 69.5 Lower Mt Cammerer Trail 70.4 Chestnut Branch Trail 71.5 Davenport Gap Shelter 72.4 Davenport GapAlso see AT elevation profiles and Smoky Moutain trails elevation profiles. Here's an elevation profiler tool where you can draw in a track on a Google map.
GSMNP clickable trail map
GSMNP landforms and campsites
maps and GPS waypoints
clickable Google GSMNP map/topo with
campsites/landforms/trails (2007 data)