[Laws in effect as of January 24, 2002]
[Document not affected by Public Laws enacted between
January 24, 2002 and December 19, 2002]
[CITE: 16USC403k]
TITLE 16--CONSERVATION
CHAPTER 1--NATIONAL PARKS, MILITARY PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND SEASHORES
SUBCHAPTER XLVI--SHENANDOAH NATIONAL PARK AND GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS
NATIONAL PARK
Sec. 403k. Boundary between Great Smoky Mountains National Park
and Cherokee-Pisgah-Nantahala National Forests
The portion of the boundary of the Great Smoky Mountains National
Park that is common to and between the park and the Cherokee-Pisgah-
Nantahala National Forests hereafter shall be as follows:
(a) Between the Pisgah National Forest and Great Smoky Mountains
National Park the boundary shall be as follows: Beginning at a point
where North Carolina State Highway Numbered 284 first crosses the
Cataloochee Divide, said point being common to the boundary of said
forest as described in Proclamation Numbered 2187 of July 10, 1936, and
the boundary of said park, as authorized by sections 403 and 403a to
403c of this title; thence following the divide northeasterly to the
summit of Bent Knee Knob; thence northwesterly and northerly following
Trail Ridge and White Oak Mountain to a point where the present national
forest boundary leaves White Oak Mountain and running with same
northwesterly across Cataloochee Creek to the southeast corner of a
tract of national park land and northwesterly through the same following
the crest of the ridge next south of the east boundary of the said tract
to the old road on the summit of Longarm Mountain; thence southwesterly
and northwesterly follows the said road running with the top of Scottish
Mountain and through a tract of national forest land to the south
boundary of a tract of national park land just east of Mount Sterling
Gap; thence northerly following the south and east boundaries of the
said tract of national park land to the northeast corner thereof; thence
northeasterly through a tract of national forest land, following the
crest of the ridge parallel to and east of Mount Sterling Creek to the
summit of the ridge terminated by the juncture of Mount Sterling Creek
with its south prong; thence northwesterly across Mount Sterling Creek
to the summit northeast of Ivy Gap; thence westerly to a point where t
