![]() ![]() In the summer it will be full but doing Road to Nowhere you need to be here early if you intend to finish before dark. ![]() Make a left and follow this for seven miles to the parking area. To get to the starting point, drive to the GSMNP and take US441 past the visitor’s center to Klinmna’s Dome Road. Make sure you have the keys for the second car. Leave one car at the tunnel and hop into the second car for the drive to the start. A car at the tunnel and another to drive you more than an hour to the start of the hike at Klingman’s Dome. In order to complete this hike you need two things. It uses four different trails and includes three waterfalls. There is a mile of creek-walking (half a mile each way) to get to Steeltrap Creek Falls. The total Road to Nowhere hike is 18.53 miles, most of which is downhill with only the last 2.5 miles uphill. As a result this hike ends with a walk through a long highway tunnel that has never been opened to vehicle traffic. The state built the tunnel and the feds did nothing. The state was to build a quarter mile long tunnel though a mountain on Lakeshore Drive in Bryson City and the feds would build the highway on the other end. In the early 1940’s the State of North Carolina entered into an agreement with the federal government on a join effort road project. The name comes from the end point of the hike, a World War II construction project. When you line them all up, all the hikes to all the waterfalls and you ask which one is my favorite hike, it is Road to Nowhere. ![]()
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