Spence Field 4887'

MAPS
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• clickable 1997 GSMNP trail map with campsites, shelters, trails (pan/zoom)
• Google ★ map/image/topo/terrain ★ with nearby landforms/campsites/trails (distance tool)
• CalTopo shaded relief topo with draw-track/profile or Gmap4 hires topo
• topoquest (quad name)
• leafletjs map (non google), with markers
• Java USGS topo map or aerial image with nearby landforms, distance tool (deprecated)
• road maps MapQuest or OSM or Google or bing
• clickable GSMNP topo/trail maps: 1974 1949 1931 1926
• more maps weather
• USGS elevation

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• free pc-to-gps software EasyGPS

Remarks:

Spence Field at one time was over 200 acres of meadow. Farmers drove their livestock up Bote Mountain road, and James Spence would tend the animals from May til September. The Park service ended the high country grazing in 1936. See Dutch Roth 1930 photo and Wikipedia info.

   © Tom Dunigan