This North Carolina Gem holds some five hundred miles of fishable trout water in the three sections of national forest; its best known river is the Davidson.

“Many people are surprised to learn that we have 4,000 miles of trout streams in Georgia,” Charlie Breithaupt. “95 percent of them are on public lands, and most of these are in the Chattahoochee.

Within a day’s drive of nearly half of America’s population, Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the nation’s most popular national park, with upwards of 9,000,000 visitors annually.