Great Smoky Mountains National Park - Part 2

As planned, I returned to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park to do more hiking and to see more sites.  Going south of Gatlinburg, Cherokee Orchard Road takes you into the park, and forms a loop with Roaring Fork Road, which returns you to another part of Gatlinburg.  The first place where I stopped in was the Noah "Bud" Ogle Cabin, seen here.

Behind the cabin was Ogle's barn.

After seeing the Ogle homestead, I hiked on Baskins Creek Trail from Roaring Fork Road to Baskins Creek Falls. It was about 1.5 miles each way.  There were lots of rocks and fallen timber at the bottom of the falls.

Here's a closer shot of the falls, in which the rocks seem to take on a greenish hue.

Next to the falls was this huge boulder.

Back on Roaring Fork Road after my hike, I continued to the Alex Cole Cabin.

Near Cole's cabin were these two barns.  GoogleMaps calls the closer one the "Homer / Jim Bales Barn".  According to National Park Planner, the closer one is a corn crib, and both structures belonged to Jim Bales.  I haven't found out why the name "Homer" is used here.

Further down Roaring Fork Road was the Ephraim Bales Cabin.  According to another page by National Park Planner, Ephraim Bales was Jim's brother.

Like Jim, Ephraim had a barn near his house.

The last place I visited was the Alfred Reagan homestead.  Here's his house.  The stairway seen through the middle door is blocked off at the top.

Across the road from his house is Reagan's tub mill, including a sluice for feeding water.

Finally, I took a picture of the equipment inside the mill, including a millstone.

Unfortunately, the mill equipment was marred by graffiti, even though the park had signs warning against that sort of thing.  Thus, the area will not have any "Bigfoot was here" messages.