Overlanding ALL of the Smokey Mountain 1000 

I know this is an older video but I’m hoping you’ll see this message. I got my father and 2 boys ages 5 and 9 out on the roads this past week. This video and specifically the twin falls were my motivation to make this trip happen. We made it to the falls and we were blown away by the area. Thank you for all of the time, energy, and effort y’all put into your videos. Safe travels and hope to see you out there!

I love your accent, you talk just like my in-laws except my wife she has a strong southern draw like southern Georgia. I’m going to be buried in the family plot. This is where we got Married. In the foot hills of the Appalachia foot hills. Nothing there’s but forgotten people. People dear to us. I will be the first yankee to be laid to rest with my family in Kentucky. I will be on a hill looking East. Been married 51 yrs. My wife and I love Kentucky and her people 🤗🇺🇸 Michigan

Great video. Love the occasional comments from the wife and the fact that you guys are older, giving me hope for planing a similar trek after I retire, if not sooner. I also like the fact that the rigs are not crazy over the top vehicles. Congratulations and look forward to your next adventures.

It is so awesome to watch a video like this. It saves me lots of time and money. I can just sit and watch this and dream. Lol you guys did a great job.

Good on y'all for helping to clean up the trail after others, as you tried to enjoy it. 👍 Great video!

This is going to be an awesome planning resource for our Smky Mtn 1000 trip this summer. Thanks for putting this together in one VLOG!

Thanks for your video of this area. After watching it I loaded up our Jeep Wrangler and the wife and Wiener dog headed out from Texas and completed about 800 miles of this trail. In So. Carolina there were several dead end detours so we missed some of this trail. We camped in our Gazell tent every night on rushing waters. Great trip and we thank you again for your videos. We are retired and I'll be taking my wife to see many places across this USA. THANKS AGAIN

Like another person commented, from Memphis but grew up in Vegas and SD. I’ve done about 50-60% of the trails in UT, NV, CA and AZ. Also spent a lot of time in Baja. We moved to Greenville last year and wasn’t sure what I’d find for 4x4 adventure. Your videos, Simply Must Go and a few others have given me quite a few places to check out. Trying to get my old Dodge ready, wiring harness is the current project. After 15 yrs of wheeling it’s needed some TLC. Hope to run into you out there someday, thank you.

Great video. Deb is not only a very good videographer but a great cook too.

Great video thank you. My wife and I follow your channel religiously and absolutely love the way you overland. It's exactly what we're trying to do. We hope to explore some of that area around the week of Thanksgiving. Keep up the GREAT content.

As a native to Western North Carolina I've been to most of these places. Great video makes me want to put a tent on my jeep.

Love the video, my wife and I recently purchased our first 4 door jeep wrangler and always had a passion for the outdoors. This is something we are seriously looking doing. Thank u again for sharing

wonderful video. Being from Eastern Kentucky myself, now transplanted in Florida, I so miss 4x4 ing in the hills. Thanks for sharing.

First, I watched the entire trip. I grew up in the Foot Hills of the Smokey Mountains, Walland to be exact. Now I live in Kansas City for the past 21 years, its so nice to see the laurel trees and the streams that I took for granted when i was a kid. Like someone else said If you haven't went through Cades Cove its beautiful. I use to ride my bike up to it and go around when I was probably 11. Yep that was before helicopter parents. (Mid 70's) Thank you for taking me back! P.S. There use to be some great 4 wheeling trails around Chilhowee (sp) lake and Fontana lake you may have been on some of them not positive. I know you said Santeela (again sp) lake. I have fished on all of those many times, GREAT now I'm home sick. Thanks Again!

I thoroughly enjoyed this entire video. I am really looking forward to getting my jeep fully outfitted for some trips like this. My wife and I are going to spend some time together in the mountains doing this very thing… We can’t wait. Thanks for the video

Beautiful scenery, wonderful commentary, exiting journey!!! Love the video. Keep it going!!!

WOW, we spend a great deal of time in Western NC and Eastern TN (Great Smoky Mountain area) and never heard of this until I saw your video. Looks like an amazing adventure and we need to do this. Thank You for sharing this.

Thank you for sharing this adventure! I used to frequent BLM land in the California Sierra Nevada mountains, and now am in South Carolina. I was disappointed in the lack of places to go off-roading and overlanding. Almost everything out here is private property! This is exactly what I have been looking for, for about 4 years now.

watching this without skip😀 it's worthed it. thank you sir.

Always enjoy your videos. Love the overlanding

I know those places so well growing up around them and many trips glad u got to see them

Great video and great adventure. Keep on going and enjoy the open road. Cool shots of the water falls and river otter family.

What a wonderful video...!!! I enjoy it from the beginning all the way to the end, you guys did a great job filming this adventure and thank you for sharing this we us ... this is a road trip that is on my to go list and I will try to get the GPX-file to use on Gaia

Good stuff. Im from lee county va now on the east coast. Miss it everyday. Gods country.

Loving your videos, excited to get my jeep ready to do some adventures like yours.

1:32:01 Amazing stuff! I gotta go and get out there! Right here in the south... (I live in Alabama) There's so much life to live, isn't there? Living the dream! And thanks for the hard work putting these videos together!

Nice to see other “ OlderLanders” out there on adventures. Rooftop tents are not easy for age challenged women, or men.

If you want to see (almost)guaranteed wild bears then drive the Cades Cove loop(all paved) for a couple hours after 1600- park close in the spring/summer. They like the cooler evenings.

Absolutely love the video! Took me a few days myself to find time to watch it through but worth every minute. As a resident of middle-NC I hadn’t known about this large loop. Now I’m wanting to plan my own adventure around it.

It was great to see the videos again great over landing

Absolutely love the way you do your narration and Music editing process. Quiet and nice music choice... its tops safe travels to you always....

Great vid! You all our obviously well prepared. Only doing this today, i would be carrying for saftey. Too many bad people everywhere. Safe travels!

Wow, thanks so much for the video log of y’all’s trip. That was some beautiful scenery. We live in the foothills of the Smoky mountains near Cosby TN. and get to see the frozen frost covered trees much of the (short) winter season. I applaud you on your preparedness and your video skills. We’ve only lived here three years and I had no idea that there were so many cool forest roads near us. I wish I would have bought a 4x4 instead of our fusion! Thanks again!

Great travelogue! I’ve camped at a few of those spots. Hope to get back there soon.

Thanks for the ride along

Nice video . Well done . Thoughtful , in depth and nicely produced . Thank for the adventure .

Fantastic video. I look forward to seeing more.

If you find yourself around Waynesville, NC, make sure to find the Haywood Smokehouse, some of the best BBQ in Smoky Mtn Region.

Beautiful video of the Smokeys. Great job on the editing. One day I'll do the Smokey 1000

Had no idea that "the" Smokey Mountain 1000 was a thing until yesterday. That looked like an amazing and fun trip. I watched the whole thing! Honestly there was a good mixture of roads interjected in this trip so you weren't jarring your bodies the whole time. Congratulations on 1.3M views too. You narrate the video and film it, nicely. Enjoyed seeing all the waterfalls. I have one nagging question though, when on those very narrow forest roads what happens if you meet another vehicle coming towards you. I would be hard pressed to drive in reverse on some of those roads? Is there a rule of the backroads about this? Thanks for sharing this amazing trip with us.

My brother and I just did hurricane creek with two completely stock trucks on some slightly larger mud tires. His is a 1990 k1500 single cab short bed and I did it in a 3500 quad cab dually. Picked out lines and drove very careful but no damage besides some possible scratches. A couple of those rocky section I didn't know if I was going to make it due to the size of my vehicle.. Camped at the first campsite the night before and woke up to beautiful scenery.

Found you on this video. Fantastic job! Can’t wait to plan this trip for my family. Starting to do my Gaia planning.

Great video!! Looks like an amazing trek through some of my favorites places. Something to note for others who follow this route. That awesome spot on old NC 105 on the west side of Linville Gorge…it’s not a camp site. Parking to hike is allowed but rescue had to have clear access to the gated Wolfpit West (117) forest service road.

Love your content! You're the best! This is my obligatory comment to enhance your RU-vid algorithm performance.

Wonderful trip Sir, Thank you for sharing. It is now on our list ! :)

Great overlanding

Awesome to see another Kentuckian! I’m stationed in New York now, but originally from Kentucky. Hoping to get a jeep after I return from deployment. This looks like a great trail.

Wow what a great video I can't wait till I'm able to do something like this thanks again

What a wonderful trip and a wonderful video. We live in Tryon, NC, south of Asheville, so much of the NC and SC paths we somewhat familiar, but most of the TN and GA were new to us. I now have some new destinations. You have a new fan.

Very nice & relaxing videos. Thank you

great coverage of some nice adventures.

Thanks for sharing your great adventures!

Excellent video footage 👏👍 TY ,, Sir !!!!

i live about 10 miles from Wilson's creek nc . it really is a beautiful area for overlanding

Love your videos, going to start my overland adventures soon. Cheers and happy new year! 4 seasons Bar-Bq Overland!

Totally environmentally friendly as well.

Thanks for the information!! Very helpful!!!😎👍🏾🤙🏾✌🏾

Lost Creek, Starr Mtn and Waucheesi...my backyard! Great trip and video production!

Beautiful country. Great job on the video.

Beautiful adventure, especially the mountain trees that looked to have been dusted with confectioners sugar. Wish we had landscape and drivable forest roads here on Maui like those in your video.

great video

Getting ready to do this trip. Is there a saved route on Gaia or do you have to plan it yourself?

JUST PURE AWESOMENESS!!!

We just learned about that loop 2 weeks ago. Team of 4 dual sport rider from Maine checked in a deals gap. Looks like a fun ride. Thanks for posting.

Thanks!

I live in Utah, man the scenery is VASTLY different. I wish we had more green here.

First time viewer to your channel really enjoyed your video.take care and God bless y'all.iam watching from Dubuque Iowa.

I’ll be getting a new off-road vehicle by summer of 2023, it would sure be nice too find / meet some fellow overlander travelers to enjoy traveling with like y’all.

Cool video! Looks like a great adventure.

Great trip indeed. Wish I could join you. Excellent vdo. 👍

I haven’t been there in 30yrs. I think it’s time to take my family there in my JK and do some camping.

I just found your channel. I LOVE your videos. Keep up the great videos!!!

great trip

Enjoying watching your video. I hope I can make it to my country 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵💐💐💐🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭

Thank You Going to check this area out. We was thinking about the KAT, but think this will be first.

there's Peace in them there woods

Good ole 5th rtb. Makes me miss Dahlonega

Great video, I hope you y'all continue to do more.

“After watching the local police swat team a guy, and then a nice warm dinner...” I died 🤣

awesome video thanks for sharing

Awesome adventure!!

Very cool trip. Thanks for posting and subbed.

ive watched thows of these types vids your camera work is the greatest = ==== great people all of ya = keep it coming = wish my 65 scout 4x4 was there with ya= hey va rebel out

daaaaamn,,, what a beautiful JEEP ...

Awesome.

being from Louisiana did not think about road closed due to snow or ice. waiting on camper top for new pickup to go check out some of this country.

Love the Jeep!

What i find interesting here with all this water crossing footage is no one seems to take into consideration older designed 4x4's aren't built to be submerged in water , gear oil & water / soiled water that gets into rear & front ends destroys them ... I rebuilt both rear & front ends due to the carnage caused by such selected options the previous owner subjected it too .. Here in Florida the water & sand once it reaches the inside of the front & rear end it's a rebuild situation ... I know some folks hook up breather hoses to prevent this ... & use extra sealer to water proof most of their electrical & other possible places where water can do damage ... My personal selected option is to avoid water crossings & terrain where it may cause damage to my beloved vehicle ... I am aware there is vehicles that are designed for such environment , mine is not one of them .. I am totally comfortable with using mine as a trail runner & not a extreme terrain vehicle of which it was never designed to be used for in the first place ! To each their own !

Hi and thanks for posting this vid :) Kingsport Tn area here. / Ahh... Va - Ky. - Tenn. - N.C. - S.C. Love It

I thank you for the adventure and my wife and I would like to meet up to join you on a trail with y’all. Your volume on your speaking needs to be increased, other than that great adventure.

This must of been fun ! I wish that one day I can also do this . I have been to 75 percent the place you in your outdoor trip but that’s over a period of 30 years . The grandfather mountain is north of ashville and close to Boone Nc … I grew up there and I really miss that place 😢

Thank God there were no "angry eye" grills!

First video I have watched on your channel. Enjoyed it! Subbed your channel!

Love it guys !!

133.42 VERY COOL,,,, LIKE THE CHANNEL. FROZEN FOG, AWESOME

You have an excellent camera operator.

Even weakened hurricanes in Northern Georgia and Southern Tennessee will cull the weak trees in a forest.

A see alot of hard work making this video. I very much enjoyed it.. Not sure why the dislikes?

Love the looks of you jeep. Do you have a video of what you have? Like suspension lift size tire wheel size etc?

I love the video❤