day trips
National park system offers everything desired within an hour's drive
By staff | 9:30 am, 07/26/2007
Let's cut to the chase: Chattanooga and Asheville, N.C., might have been recognized more as outdoor towns, but Knoxville is just as cool.
Just look at a map. Knoxville lies in the Tennessee Valley, a physiographic region sandwiched between the Cumberland Plateau to the west and the Appalachian Mountains to the east.
