When Jess Lancaster was growing up in northwest Indiana, her family took a vacation to the Great Smoky Mountains, and Jess was smitten! She moved to Nashville in 2009 to finish her undergraduate degree, and started hiking near home and in the Cumberland Plateau region of eastern Tennessee. In 2013, she started the shehikestn.com, and has been promoting hiking in Tennessee ever since. As she states on her website:"I’m based in Nashville and determined to prove that middle Tennessee is just as ...