If you’ve ever traveled to western North Carolina near Asheville, you know what you’ll encounter when you come here — lush, green, tree-covered mountains as far as the eye can see, just beyond the wilderness areas of Great Smoky Mountains National Park and the Pisgah National Forest, the former of which is the most visited national park in America.
You’ll get to run in the shadow of all of that at the Gateway to the Smokies Half Marathon, which makes its second annual running in the heart of the spring season in a small town called Waynesville, which lies just south of the entrance to the national park — hence the name, “Gateway to the Smokies.”
