Instructions:
· Contact Thomas Pendleton to secure a trail/area to inventory.
o Phone: 865-789-4997
· Fill out and turn in a Local Tour Permit to your local council office.
· Each Unit must have a filled out
Volunteer Agreement with the Great Smoky Mountain National Park. Send this agreement to Dana Soehn at the National Park Service via
o Fax: 865-436-1244
o Dana can also be reached via phone at 865-436-1265.
· As you do this project, please pick up trash and inspect the trails and campsites you hike by. Report any hazards or missing signs to the Park Backcountry Officeat 865-436-1297.
The main focus of this project is to inspect, inventory, and photograph all of the trail signs in the park and to give them that assessment. The Ranger in charge of volunteers
The Backcountry Sign Inventory Form is the main instrument used for this assessment. It can be found on the forms section of this webpage. The form has the following sections:
1. Sign Type – Please check appropriate box
2. Sign Location – Please fill in trail or trails at intersection. I will fill in district.
3. Sign Location (sketch)– Please sketch a diagram of the sign location, include trail names.
4. Photo – Email photo(s), write file name(s) on form.
Please take at least one photo with and without flash of each sign, sometimes the flash brings out the lettering better.
5. Wording on Sign – Please copy the exact wording on the sign.
6. Please fill in the rest of the questions.
Please fill out an Inventory Form for each sign, sometimes there are more than one sign on a post.
**Please hand draw the sign location, fill in the wording on the sign, and write the file name in the photo section. I have a program that will allow me to draw the location and attach the picture.
Email photo to: Mail Backcountry Form to:
(Write file name on form) 7249 Autumn View Lane
Powell, TN 37849