Appalachian Adventure! Overlanding Tennessee And North Carolina

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  • @Chad_N_Stacey_Hopson
    @Chad_N_Stacey_Hopson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I have lived here all my life (except for my 10 yrs. in the Army) from Hamblen County to Sevier County..... I will forever call these hills HOME!!!!

    • @beckmanes4396
      @beckmanes4396 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Where is this please fill me in

  • @MrTapanes
    @MrTapanes 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Am loving these vids. Great reminders to get out and enjoy nature. Planning and building is a heck of a lot of fun, but getting out there and building memories (especially with the fam) should be the primary goal. BTW did some wheeling out in the Kentucky area years ago and can't tell you what a pleasure it was to see the beautiful country and meet a lot of these really great people. Jeep broke down on some backroad where I couldn't get cell service and I thought I was in trouble. Within minutes, had two different people who had seen me break down, offer to tow me back to their houses and help me out. Ended up eating dinner at this fellow's house, spent the night (camped in his yard) and he helped me diagnose and fix the issue the next morning. Absolutely refused to take any money for this trouble. Pains me to see these people made fun of in certain circles. Made me want to be a better person (and I hope I am).

  • @jasonhayes4290
    @jasonhayes4290 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    As a NC native…..THANK YOU for pronouncing it correctly.

    • @slowfox89
      @slowfox89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wnc native myself. I love hearing the butchery of Appalachian word. Hahaha

  • @Jason_Shelby77
    @Jason_Shelby77 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Over in my neck of the woods!! I love Tennessee. Cherokee National Forest is my favorite place to camp and explore.

    • @nate4036
      @nate4036 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I spend every weekend somewhere between Fort Mountain and Gatlinburg. So much history in these hills. Especially around the Hiwassee River

  • @snicklefritzd3612
    @snicklefritzd3612 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Dirt church Sunday! Glad you guys made it back safe. Looked like a great trip.

  • @greghoffstadt667
    @greghoffstadt667 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thanks the short video. You are 100% correct on visiting old cemeteries. It does make you stop and reflect on how short are time is and is a small wind back into there world.

    • @johnthegiant320
      @johnthegiant320 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I used to drive log truck, one spot we were working had a Scottish cemetery with just a handful of stones. They were so old most were unreadable. Very reverent being there reading the stones. Seemed it was a family spot.

  • @charleswhalen7332
    @charleswhalen7332 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Spectacular!
    It’s definitely not Max Patch. By the way, Max Patch has become so overrun and trashed that it’s been closed to camping.
    I’ve been up a good many grassy balds along the NC-TN border ridges. The vast majority of them are forested most of the way up and have small open grassy bald patches just around the summit cone, with unobstructed 360-degree views from the summit. Very few have this broad, vast, wide-open ‘Big Sky’ look that you see here in this video. Among them, the ones I know include: Pond Mtn/Stone Mtn/Rogers Ridge, Long Hope ridge, Grayson Highlands (in SW VA, high-elevation vehicular access from the north, to Scales), the northernmost stretch of the Roan Highlands (although there’s no high-elevation vehicular access up there), and maybe to a lesser extent Beauty Spot/Pleasant Garden.
    This place in the video looks most similar to the first on that list. But I don’t think it’s any of the above. I’m more familiar with the NC side of the border ridges, not as much with the TN side. Given that they started in TN, and their license plates are TN, I’d guess that this is somewhere in eastern TN a little bit further back to the west of the NC border. The view to the east shows the higher elevation ridges along the TN-NC border. I’d love to know where this is, but I can understand that these guys might not want to divulge the exact location. After all, look what’s happened to Max Patch.

    • @wanderinwatermonkey
      @wanderinwatermonkey ปีที่แล้ว +1

      You named it...

    • @Princessdianadrivingservice
      @Princessdianadrivingservice 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s what I thought. I pick berries up on max every year and crawl around on the truck at that border on max. Looks close to that

  • @STinGa157
    @STinGa157 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That clip with you looking down upon the clouds is why I love traveling up and down the Blue Ridge Pkwy. I will never tire of those views.

  • @gearlist
    @gearlist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Such an awesome trip - family, friends, history, and great cinematography 👏 love it

  • @boostdtalon
    @boostdtalon 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sometimes I forget how beautiful it is in the Appalachian mountains. I need to go home for a visit!

  • @tjsilverjones
    @tjsilverjones 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Heck yeah man. Pretty cool you got to visit out here in my neck of the woods. There are thousands of places like that in the blue ridge with amazing scenery and camping. Also have some great offroad parks to go to. And yeah, thanks for pronouncing Appalachia correctly 😂👍

  • @darrencraddock4606
    @darrencraddock4606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Absolutely worth the trip if anyone is ever able to go on one meet new people and hang out with fellow enthusiasts

  • @KrokemOutdoors
    @KrokemOutdoors 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Cool to see how much history there is out that way, especially as a part of the excursion on the way to camp! 👍🔥

    • @DirtLifestyle
      @DirtLifestyle  3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      As a closet history nerd I was loving every second 👊

  • @lyndonhamby7432
    @lyndonhamby7432 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You was close to me Nate. I live east of Boone. Glad to have ya 🤙👍👍

  • @ShotGunner5609
    @ShotGunner5609 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you as always for sharing brother. Hope y'all have a good trip.

  • @hoganmaughan3273
    @hoganmaughan3273 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glad you had time to stop out in my neck of the woods, Nate! Lived in TN my whole life. You're so right, though...we have a TON of historical monuments and relics still hanging around here from such pivotal times within US History! I'm with you, too, about cemeteries. My wife and I love to go in and read the headstones, also. Great to learn about these people and find that remembrance is still a thing no matter how much time passes after we're gone from this earth.

  • @bc30cal99
    @bc30cal99 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for the view of a part of your country I've never been to or even seen much of. Good to see the family out on the outings too. Stay well sir.

  • @vincentpoole7588
    @vincentpoole7588 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Nate. Cool to hear your old D2 Buick V8 ! That cemetery brought back memories of the village plots in the pacific Islands, where they plant a tree over the burial plot to signify the elders who've past ? V.

    • @DirtLifestyle
      @DirtLifestyle  3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's still trucking! For now at least lol

  • @slowfox89
    @slowfox89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Glad you came out this way and saw the beauty it has to offer. I love living here. My father grew up near Olympia and told me about the area. I hope one day to make it to pnw and give it a tour.
    It looks a lot like the Roan mtn area you were at.

  • @davidoliver2826
    @davidoliver2826 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    You, the family and the great outdoors. How could it be any better? With good friends and an awesome rig! Of course! Thanks Nate for taking us all along on your journey!

  • @kellyschue3103
    @kellyschue3103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    One of my favorite parts of seeing other places whether it be for work or vacation whatever is seeing the historic spots and the scenery is icing on the cake great video

  • @PaulKaiser42
    @PaulKaiser42 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What an amazing trip you and your family are having….so happy for you👍🏻👍🏻

  • @JTHendo464
    @JTHendo464 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    We definitely need a rig walk around on that 1st gen Toyota

  • @DANEMSPRINGER
    @DANEMSPRINGER 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your story telling gets better and better every video man! Great work! Can't wait until you get back home and do a complete review of your rover.

  • @chkwgn460
    @chkwgn460 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome video!!
    The wife and I stop at cemeteries out in the country quite often and roam around reading the headstones.

  • @jdenmark1287
    @jdenmark1287 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This little short hits close to home. I was born in GA and grew up in ME, spent most of my youth hiking the Appalachian mountain range all the way into Canada.
    The bit on cemeteries was especially poignant as I’ve always enjoyed the connection i felt to the past when reading old gravestones. The ones in Maine have markers from over four hundred years ago.
    Plus it brought back memories of a weeklong road trip up the spine of the Appalachian in a ‘74 SIII 109”.
    Well done and thank you.

  • @moabwheeling1305
    @moabwheeling1305 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Looked like such a awesome trip with good friends and your family Nate . Building family memories is the greatest thing to do in my book .

  • @turbogrin
    @turbogrin 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Greetings from western Montana! Great series of overlanding videos! Great times with Family, friends and pets ! Enjoy !

  • @gwood69
    @gwood69 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Ain’t nothin like the blue ridge and the Appalachia’s

  • @KasonMayberry-g2u
    @KasonMayberry-g2u 14 วันที่ผ่านมา

    YALL GOTTA START DROPPING LOCATIONS EXACTLY. MOVED TO TN AND CANTFIND ANYWHERE TO OVERLAND

  • @jamesdavis6433
    @jamesdavis6433 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nate, So good to see you wheeling in my neck of the woods. I was born in Ashville and have wheeled a lot in NC TN VA WVA. Maybe someday I will get another jeep and get out west. Thanks so much for pronouncing our Mountain's (although they are a little smaller than your used too) correctly and telling the history of how they were named. I love your vid's and your just getting better at making them.

  • @southernappalachianrecon
    @southernappalachianrecon 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I feel the same way about old cemeteries I find out in the southern Appalachian national forests

  • @mikemorgan4670
    @mikemorgan4670 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice trip. Back road America is awesome. You really captured the vista's and winding roads with a nice touch.

  • @toddwilliams7
    @toddwilliams7 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm glad to see you in the Appalachians. A vast majority of TH-cam overlanders seem to tend to hang out in the western part of the states. Not that the Rockies aren't beautiful but I much prefer the Appalachians.

  • @pauljordan3064
    @pauljordan3064 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great video! I love to walk around in old cemeteries and look at the headstones too. I guess I'm not as weird as I thought. But this is another place for my bucket list. Thanks!

  • @the42Vance
    @the42Vance 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    My dad and I used to camp in a cemetery like that in West Virginia near our old property because it was the only place with flat, mowed ground.

  • @LDeezy662
    @LDeezy662 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love our country and all of its beauty!!

  • @Princessdianadrivingservice
    @Princessdianadrivingservice 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m always planning a spot new as a NC local and I’ve never found this as a camping spot for the kids. I’ve visited more than most in these hills. Guess I’ll be lookin since y’all ain’t telling the spot.
    One day I’ll be buyin a spot like that soon I hope.

  • @v8srock
    @v8srock 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I have actually been to Tennessee and it is very similar to my local area of the Hunter Valley NSW Australia.
    Only bigger :D

  • @nickcrill7718
    @nickcrill7718 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Love the adventure video! Can’t wait until I can afford to do trips like yours. Also think it would be super cool to see you build a 1st gen 4Runner

  • @WeekendWrenchTurner
    @WeekendWrenchTurner 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I came for the builds, I stayed for the stories. Keep up the great work Nate👍🍺

  • @tmurray12
    @tmurray12 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Oh man you're in lifestyle overland territory! Would love to see a Collab with y'all's channels.

  • @zacharyfike1071
    @zacharyfike1071 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Finally in my neck of the woods

  • @regularperson7
    @regularperson7 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a North Carolinian who was just in the nc mountains this weekend I hate I missed this and didn't get to be a part of it

  • @akatanaros
    @akatanaros 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm going to have to add this to my trip list. Looks Amazing

  • @eRevere85
    @eRevere85 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    No jeep fest? Would’ve been awesome to meet you considering I’m building my TJ after watching your 4 link video on yours

  • @drmarkintexas-400
    @drmarkintexas-400 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏
    Blessed Families 🛐
    Beautiful scenery
    Thank you for sharing

  • @Tboffroadfab
    @Tboffroadfab 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In my neck of the woods now, I need to get up with Sam fellow. That Toyota is sick!!

  • @jasonmears4393
    @jasonmears4393 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Awesome video...where exactly is this beautiful place?

    • @digi463
      @digi463 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah, would like to know as well.

  • @wanderinwatermonkey
    @wanderinwatermonkey ปีที่แล้ว

    Beautiful area, took about an hour of searching and prowling Google earth but found it and was not disappointed. Videos incredible and still fails to do this place full justice.

    • @colewilliams7941
      @colewilliams7941 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Hi! Hendo nc native here, I'm interested in going here, what are some landmarks to help find this area? Thanks for any help

    • @patrickmahorney3127
      @patrickmahorney3127 ปีที่แล้ว

      Any chance you could share the latitude-longitude or a map? I’m looking to head that way from Indiana in a couple weeks and it looks like exactly what I’m looking for

    • @wanderinwatermonkey
      @wanderinwatermonkey ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@patrickmahorney3127 highly suggest "beauty spot" in the unaka mountain range. Aswell as the side lookout on a .25 mile trail between horseback and bear teail ridge.the video location I refuse to put on blast but it's about 2 hours from unakas.

    • @christianwaits4767
      @christianwaits4767 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Interested in this location, would you be willing to directly share the coordinates?

  • @JEEP-N-DIRT
    @JEEP-N-DIRT 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nate, nice one. Really nice story telling and videography. Awesome job man.

  • @tonybivens9371
    @tonybivens9371 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I live in East Tennessee and I can take you to cemeteries that a lot of people don’t know of

  • @ktmterry373
    @ktmterry373 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Added to my bucket list. Wow

  • @projectbumblejeep4190
    @projectbumblejeep4190 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great stuff as usual Nate and family. God bless and stay well.

  • @ontherocks1491
    @ontherocks1491 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    In old grave yards the trees in the grave yard are head stones they even still do that today

  • @nickb9402
    @nickb9402 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great location! I’d love to experience that. Anyway you could share the cords or location?

  • @jk_wrangler13
    @jk_wrangler13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I enjoy that area. I grew up in NC and have drove those places myself

    • @DirtLifestyle
      @DirtLifestyle  3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      It's beautiful 🙌

    • @omarsalomon5841
      @omarsalomon5841 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what mountain is this? Looks beautiful spot

    • @jk_wrangler13
      @jk_wrangler13 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@omarsalomon5841 I'm not sure of the name. It's been years since I've been there.

    • @Princessdianadrivingservice
      @Princessdianadrivingservice 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I’ve been here family since 1600’s and I’m looking for this. 😂

  • @theadventuresofsaltyjrover
    @theadventuresofsaltyjrover 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Now you are traveling through where I grew up finding relics living in a civil war battle ground

  • @jakeofallterrains9048
    @jakeofallterrains9048 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe that Tacoma is currently For Sale.

  • @paulkimble4548
    @paulkimble4548 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Keep the great content coming

  • @oneoffroadonefamily
    @oneoffroadonefamily 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    next nice video, toyota is beautiful

  • @nathanchastain6004
    @nathanchastain6004 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Thank you for pronouncing the mountain range correctly. It's sad when a TH-camr says it correctly and the local news can't

  • @danielc.8006
    @danielc.8006 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    East TN is Best TN.

  • @IrishRebel88
    @IrishRebel88 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always thought "overlanding" was off-road. If it's just riding FS roads, I guess I've been overlanding my whole life and didn't know it. Imagine that.

  • @piasprojects
    @piasprojects 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Such a great video of what looked like an awesome video! I hope to make one of these trips!

  • @chir0pter
    @chir0pter 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting about the source of the Appalachian name- because the apalachee bay is drained into by the apalachicola River, which runs all the way up to the southern Appalachians. Wonder if that played into the naming

  • @TheFrenchGroup
    @TheFrenchGroup 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cool vid, thanks

  • @brentfellers9632
    @brentfellers9632 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awsome tunes Nate!

  • @jacobythomas8556
    @jacobythomas8556 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Cool video and beautiful views, me and my family took our jk on a 2 day adventure to the Talladega national Forest this weekend it was fun if you travel threw Alabama you should check it out. Ride trail 600-1 and 600-2 it has beautiful mountain top views.

  • @darksideemt
    @darksideemt 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Awesome stuff!!

  • @pnw_element9822
    @pnw_element9822 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn awesome Nate

  • @gordangraham
    @gordangraham 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I was born in Greeneville Greene county, now live in Hamblen County, but I’m not familiar with the place you went, can you share the name, I didn’t catch it in the video.

  • @Dan-hb7om
    @Dan-hb7om 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can you share a link to the campsite on top of the mountain? I live in NE TN and I don’t recognize that spot.

  • @DylanYouSonOfABidgeNelson
    @DylanYouSonOfABidgeNelson 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Amazing content

  • @zr2dad5
    @zr2dad5 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    did i see you as a cameo in a tfl video at some overland show? i yell nate pickle!!

  • @greghoffstadt667
    @greghoffstadt667 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Side note your video's are superb as always. Have you ever had a production software company want to help you? Or are you self motivated to bring the best that you can forward.

  • @gundocC2
    @gundocC2 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    This is my neck of the woods.

  • @GoXplr
    @GoXplr 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rats ... I've run those trails a half dozen times. Maybe I'll catch yall next time around. Safe travels ...

    • @markratliff1407
      @markratliff1407 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Where is this? Max patch?

    • @GoXplr
      @GoXplr 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@markratliff1407 yep

    • @MrMrsregor
      @MrMrsregor 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@markratliff1407 it does look like max patch, but there are no roads into the max patch fields just parking at the bottom

  • @LoneStarSwirl
    @LoneStarSwirl 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I am looking to plan a trip through the Blue Ridge and southern portion of the Appalachians. I have never been that way. Do you have recommendations on certain trails, GPS, camp spots? Thanks!

  • @tanyagrabousky1332
    @tanyagrabousky1332 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I just got a Jeep and watched this video. I live in NC mountains and would love to know exactly where this is?

  • @carlgrimes8152
    @carlgrimes8152 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    A little detail about where the area is would be.... useful....."Appalachian Mountain Range" is a big area. Maybe some GPS coordinates....

    • @MrMrsregor
      @MrMrsregor 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      this was intentionally vague in respect to the local crowd

  • @westernwanderer8397
    @westernwanderer8397 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got a lot of good ideas from you and a couple other Land Rover owners on TH-cam and plan to glean some of them for my 95. One big question is, I know you moved back your rear axle to help make room for the tires, but did you trim away some material from the wheel arch closest to the rear doors? I was planning on moving my axle back, but I didn't think about just moving the perch location on the axle. I also don't want to trim my wheel arches next to the rear doors so dirt and rot gets into the inner body. It always looks bad.

  • @varietypbreview
    @varietypbreview 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Is there anyway you can share the route you took and the sites you camped at?

  • @johnnybravo380
    @johnnybravo380 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Goals to do this stuff someday

  • @davidwhisman6683
    @davidwhisman6683 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Tennessee is great I live in Knoxville

  • @beckmanes4396
    @beckmanes4396 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where is this, Cocke county native I’m just wanting to drive up through there

  • @glitch721
    @glitch721 3 วันที่ผ่านมา

    do you have to reserve the spots or just drive up there and camp?

  • @allover4309
    @allover4309 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I'm having a hard time getting around the backwards strainers on the cemetery fence. Ugh. 4:25

  • @beerfrog_TheOriginal
    @beerfrog_TheOriginal 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks so great👍 797 to go🥳👋🇸🇪

  • @7448spanky
    @7448spanky 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    We just call it home.

  • @devonjennings7584
    @devonjennings7584 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Anyone know what ridge they camped on? I’m somewhat local to that area and never seen that.

  • @willardwooten9582
    @willardwooten9582 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Looks like they prefer tents on the ground as I only saw 2 maybe 3 roof top tents.

    • @darrencraddock4606
      @darrencraddock4606 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Most the jeeps there weren't setup for overland more so trail rigs

    • @willardwooten9582
      @willardwooten9582 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@darrencraddock4606 Nate was my neighbor till I moved 6 months ago , now 10 miles down the street closer to Rainier.

  • @angushoover8670
    @angushoover8670 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Did you invite Matt from BleepenJeep on your outing?

  • @samuelsantiago3229
    @samuelsantiago3229 ปีที่แล้ว

    Are there bears or mountain lions to plan for? Thanks!!!

  • @ilemjohn
    @ilemjohn 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fun!

  • @michaelcullum7473
    @michaelcullum7473 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. I recently moved to Knoxville and have been looking for trails and camping. What is the location of your camping spot and what route did you take?

    • @slowfox89
      @slowfox89 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      You should look up windrock park. It is fairly local to Knoxville. 70,000 acres and over 300 miles of trails. Located in Oliver springs, tn

  • @kelliesharpe1067
    @kelliesharpe1067 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    you must really love the mountains with all your heart and soul and it's not just a love for TH-cam i'm seeing here at all. everyone knows the absolute best thing for the so very few peaceful, non trashed areas is to put them online and invite a ton of people there so they can all tell 10 people each where the location is. good on you, you nature loving.. good hearted.. well meaning youtuber🙄

  • @richardmcnair285
    @richardmcnair285 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I must know where this is!

  • @sierramantrvlnus
    @sierramantrvlnus 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yay!

  • @adamparker8604able
    @adamparker8604able 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hey nate where part of Tennessee was yall in