The AT in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park


Base elevation map courtesy of Robert Lochbaum.

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 Gap 
Also 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.
AT shelters

GSMNP clickable trail map
GSMNP landforms and campsites maps and GPS waypoints
clickable Google GSMNP map/topo with campsites/landforms/trails (2007 data)