• Name: Joyce Kilmer – Slickrock Wilderness
  State: North Carolina (+ a little in Tennessee)
  Area: 17,400 acres
  Year designated: 1975
  Year visited: 2012
  Context: Benton MacKaye Trail hike with Fiskars

 

 

 

 

 

Name: Shining Rock Wilderness
State: North Carolina
Area: 18,500 acres
Year Designated: 1964
Year Visited: 2013
Context: Art Loeb hike with Houck family

 

 

Name: Southern Nantahala Wilderness
State: North Carolina/Georgia
Area: 23,400
Year designated: 1984
Year visited: 2010
Context: Appalachian Trail hike with Karma