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Clues:
 * It is the nation's busiest park, drawing more than nine million visitors a year, twice the number of any other national park.
 * The park, which covers 800 square miles of mountainous terrain, preserves the world's best examples of deciduous forest and a matchless variety of plants and animals. Because it contains so many types of eastern forest vegetation—much of it old growth—the park has been designated an international biosphere reserve.
 * Many people who live in the Eastern third of the U.S. can reach the park in a day.
 * At 480 feet, **Fontana Dam**, on the southwestern boundary of the park, is the tallest concrete dam east of the Rocky Mountains.
 * The Appalachian Trail, a back country hiking trail running from Georgia to Maine, passes through this National Park.

Questions: 1. What is the name of this National Park? 2. What mountain range, which runs from Georgia to Maine, passes through this National Park?

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