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“Within the southernmost loops of the Ohio River lies a vast wooded area known to many motoring tourists as ‘Ohio’s Little Smokies.’ Particularly in the Fall do these hills take on the hazy blue tinge associated with the most southerly mountains of Tennessee and North Carolina. This view in the 35,000 acre Shawnee State Forest is typical of the easily accessible area just west of Portsmouth. Nearby is the Theodore Roosevelt Reserve with another 11,000 acres of wooded hill country. This whole big area in southern Ohio is rapidly becoming a vast outdoor playground which is almost unchanged from the day of the Shawnee Indians and the Moundbuilders before them. In the Fall of the year, the oaks, maples and poplar trees give this hill country a splendid cloak of color which attracts photographers by the thousand."