Big South Fork River National Recreation Area/Bandy Creek Campground

Loved the mountain laurel in bloom in the woods at Big South Fork.  It's near Oneida, TN close to the KY border, just a couple hours from Gatlinburg.

We biked about 10-12 miles a day on unimproved roads through Scott Forest, and read some library books the four days we were at Bandy Creek.

We met up with horses a couple of times.

During the day the gnats were fierce, but not after sundown fortunately.

This looked like root beer creek 

Randy cleaned up the bikes before we loaded them up to head to Elkmont.  Cades Cove is a paved road so we figured the bikes might even stay clean.

Lots of game time - Splendor, Settlers of Catan, Play Nine, Station Master, and Rummy

The road getting to the campground was a 13% grade and hairpin turns!  That's the biggest reason we probably won't camp there again.

The West Rim overlook was nice once we came out of the canyon