Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness

North Carolina, Tennessee

Wilderness Area

About Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness

Joyce Kilmer-Slickrock Wilderness, created in 1975, covers 19,246 acres (78 km2) in the Nantahala National Forest in western North Carolina and the Cherokee National Forest in East Tennessee, in the watersheds of the Slickrock and Little Santeetlah Creeks. The Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest along Little Santeetlah Creek is a rare example of an old-growth cove hardwood forest, an extremely diverse forest type unique to the Appalachian Mountains.

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Catalog facts

Manager
U.S. Forest Service

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