Several of the biggest trees in the East live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park where pockets of old-growth escaped logging during the industrial boom. One of those places is the Boogerman Grove, in the park's southeastern reaches, and it is full of towering giants. The Eastern Native Tree Society has documented numerous large trees in this area. The tallest known eastern tree - a 186 ft. tall white pine - is here, as is the largest known tulip poplar by volume. We visited this grove on a multi-day trip in the Smokies. In one section we saw one giant white pine after another, each towering over the forest canopy. Old-growth tulip poplars commanded small coves on the park's northern aspects. The area includes stands of old-growth eastern hemlocks, almost all of them standing dead after infection with the hemlock wooly adelgid. Along nearby high ridges, one can also see old-growth red spruce and occasional stunted old-growth oaks.