National Parks Exploration Series - The Great Smoky Mountains: Crown Jewel of the Appalachians [Blu-ray]

National Parks Exploration: Smokey Mountains
Very well presented, good history information, photography is great. I have all the National Parks Exploratin DVDs (8 to date), all are very good. One problem: They leave you wanting more.
I'll continue to purchase and enjoy these. Some (Everglases, Smoky Mountains) cover a park (and area) that don't get the coverage of the big parks.

Good but could have been better
Love the Smoky Mountains so I am letting you know up front I am going to be biased. There is a dearth of high quality video of the Smokies out there so I jumped on this when available. Overall the presentation is fine but could have been better with more shots of the actual mountains instead of "Ranger Bob" lifting logs looking for bugs. The more educational material was good but I was hoping for more views of the beautiful mountains as well as some of the beautiful fall color the Smokies are famous for.

For the price is really is hard to complain however. If you love the Smokies it's a no brainer. If you have only a casual interest then you probably should knock a star or perhaps two off my rating.

Again, I love me some Smoky Mountains so I am just glad to finally have some HD material on the subject.

Some Good Content, Just Okay
This feature has some great shots of flora & fauna of the park. Unfortunately, these great shots seem to get recycled over and over again. While the music is nice, the narration is stilted and dull at times. There is some historical information presented, but as others have mentioned, we need to see more of the park than a ranger turning over logs. There is almost no information on the beautiful byway, just a few shots of cars lined up. The most interesting part to me was the author featured who showed some of the nice views from differing hikes. While filmed in high definition, this comes out as rather amateurish. PBS, History and Discovery do this far better. There is a reason the price is so low, so is the content quality. Just Okay.

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