The Cherokee Botanical Garden and Nature Trail is a

botanical garden A botanical garden or botanic gardenThe terms ''botanic'' and ''botanical'' and ''garden'' or ''gardens'' are used more-or-less interchangeably, although the word ''botanic'' is generally reserved for the earlier, more traditional gardens, an ...

and nature trail located beside the

Oconaluftee Indian Village The Oconaluftee Indian Village is a replica of an 18th-century eastern Cherokee community founded in 1952 and located along the Oconaluftee River in Cherokee, North Carolina, United States. History The Cherokee "living museum" founded by the Ea ...

, off U.S. Route 441 in Cherokee, North Carolina.Cherokee Botanical Garden
/ref> The garden displays more than 150 species of plants native to the

Great Smoky Mountains The Great Smoky Mountains (, ''Equa Dutsusdu Dodalv'') are a mountain range rising along the Tennessee–North Carolina border in the southeastern United States. They are a subrange of the Appalachian Mountains, and form part of the Blue Ridge ...

, with an herb garden and 0.5 miles of walking trail through a mixed pine and hardwood forest along the slopes of Mount Noble.

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Botanical gardens in North Carolina Protected areas of Swain County, North Carolina {{SwainCountyNC-geo-stub

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