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Len Foote Hike Inn

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<p>A LEED-certified inn with 20 simple rooms, each with two bunks. (Hot showers are in a bathhouse.) Most guests pass their time hiking, chatting, reading, or playing board games in the Sunrise Room or rocking in an Adirondack chair on the wraparound porch.</p> <p><strong>What to Do:</strong> Stroll along the gorgeous one-mile Cove/Fire Break Interpretive Trail loop to look for native wildflowers: fire pinks and brilliant orange Turk's cap lilies, as well as stunning butterflies like the blue- and orange-dotted spicebush swallowtail. If you're really ambitious, hike 4.5 miles to Springer Mountain, the southern starting point of the Appalachian Trail—and then 4.5 miles back to the inn.</p>

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From Travel + Leisure , JUL 2008

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Last updated July 2008