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).
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.
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
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.
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 😂👍
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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?
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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!!!!
Where is this please fill me in
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).
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.
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.
Dirt church Sunday! Glad you guys made it back safe. Looked like a great trip.
Thanks! Me too!
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.
Such an awesome trip - family, friends, history, and great cinematography 👏 love it
Over in my neck of the woods!! I love Tennessee. Cherokee National Forest is my favorite place to camp and explore.
I spend every weekend somewhere between Fort Mountain and Gatlinburg. So much history in these hills. Especially around the Hiwassee River
East TN is Best TN.
As a NC native…..THANK YOU for pronouncing it correctly.
Wnc native myself. I love hearing the butchery of Appalachian word. Hahaha
You was close to me Nate. I live east of Boone. Glad to have ya 🤙👍👍
Sometimes I forget how beautiful it is in the Appalachian mountains. I need to go home for a visit!
Absolutely worth the trip if anyone is ever able to go on one meet new people and hang out with fellow enthusiasts
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.
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.
We definitely need a rig walk around on that 1st gen Toyota
Thank you as always for sharing brother. Hope y'all have a good trip.
Thanks for watching!
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!
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
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.
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.
What an amazing trip you and your family are having….so happy for you👍🏻👍🏻
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.
You named it...
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
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 .
I love our country and all of its beauty!!
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 😂👍
Ain’t nothin like the blue ridge and the Appalachia’s
Greetings from western Montana! Great series of overlanding videos! Great times with Family, friends and pets ! Enjoy !
Nice trip. Back road America is awesome. You really captured the vista's and winding roads with a nice touch.
Awesome video!!
The wife and I stop at cemeteries out in the country quite often and roam around reading the headstones.
Cool to see how much history there is out that way, especially as a part of the excursion on the way to camp! 👍🔥
As a closet history nerd I was loving every second 👊
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.
It's still trucking! For now at least lol
I feel the same way about old cemeteries I find out in the southern Appalachian national forests
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!
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.
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.
I'm going to have to add this to my trip list. Looks Amazing
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.
Thank you!
Finally in my neck of the woods
YALL GOTTA START DROPPING LOCATIONS EXACTLY. MOVED TO TN AND CANTFIND ANYWHERE TO OVERLAND
Added to my bucket list. Wow
In old grave yards the trees in the grave yard are head stones they even still do that today
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
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.
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
I have actually been to Tennessee and it is very similar to my local area of the Hunter Valley NSW Australia.
Only bigger :D
Great stuff as usual Nate and family. God bless and stay well.
Nate, nice one. Really nice story telling and videography. Awesome job man.
Keep the great content coming
Cool vid, thanks
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.
I believe that Tacoma is currently For Sale.
Oh man you're in lifestyle overland territory! Would love to see a Collab with y'all's channels.
I enjoy that area. I grew up in NC and have drove those places myself
It's beautiful 🙌
what mountain is this? Looks beautiful spot
@@omarsalomon5841 I'm not sure of the name. It's been years since I've been there.
I’ve been here family since 1600’s and I’m looking for this. 😂
I'm having a hard time getting around the backwards strainers on the cemetery fence. Ugh. 4:25
I came for the builds, I stayed for the stories. Keep up the great work Nate👍🍺
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
Awsome tunes Nate!
No jeep fest? Would’ve been awesome to meet you considering I’m building my TJ after watching your 4 link video on yours
Awesome video...where exactly is this beautiful place?
Yeah, would like to know as well.
Awesome stuff!!
Goals to do this stuff someday
Thank you for pronouncing the mountain range correctly. It's sad when a TH-camr says it correctly and the local news can't
I live in East Tennessee and I can take you to cemeteries that a lot of people don’t know of
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.
Hi! Hendo nc native here, I'm interested in going here, what are some landmarks to help find this area? Thanks for any help
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
@@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.
Interested in this location, would you be willing to directly share the coordinates?
This is my neck of the woods.
Such a great video of what looked like an awesome video! I hope to make one of these trips!
In my neck of the woods now, I need to get up with Sam fellow. That Toyota is sick!!
Damn awesome Nate
Now you are traveling through where I grew up finding relics living in a civil war battle ground
Great location! I’d love to experience that. Anyway you could share the cords or location?
Amazing content
Thanks man 🙏
Tennessee is great I live in Knoxville
Beautiful area!
I must know where this is!
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.
We just call it home.
Fun!
🏆🏆🏆👍🇺🇲🙏
Blessed Families 🛐
Beautiful scenery
Thank you for sharing
Thank you!
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.
Yay!
next nice video, toyota is beautiful
Looks like they prefer tents on the ground as I only saw 2 maybe 3 roof top tents.
Most the jeeps there weren't setup for overland more so trail rigs
@@darrencraddock4606 Nate was my neighbor till I moved 6 months ago , now 10 miles down the street closer to Rainier.
Is there anyway you can share the route you took and the sites you camped at?
Where were these trails! How can I find them
Any luck finding out?
Nope not yet!
Looks around max patch
A little detail about where the area is would be.... useful....."Appalachian Mountain Range" is a big area. Maybe some GPS coordinates....
this was intentionally vague in respect to the local crowd
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.
Looks so great👍 797 to go🥳👋🇸🇪
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.
I just got a Jeep and watched this video. I live in NC mountains and would love to know exactly where this is?
Anyone know what ridge they camped on? I’m somewhat local to that area and never seen that.
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.
Did you invite Matt from BleepenJeep on your outing?
Hey nate where part of Tennessee was yall in
did i see you as a cameo in a tfl video at some overland show? i yell nate pickle!!
Where is this, Cocke county native I’m just wanting to drive up through there
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!
Are there bears or mountain lions to plan for? Thanks!!!
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.
do you have to reserve the spots or just drive up there and camp?
6:16
What vehicle is this?
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?
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