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As travelers come to the Gatlinburg/Pigeon Forge/Sevierville areas, check updated online maps to help find alternate routes with parts of Interstates 26 and 40 shut down, along with some other ...
Most of Great Smoky Mountains tourist areas have full access to water in the wake of Hurricane Helen floods, but one communities just east of Gatlinburg and in Cosby might not have water for weeks.
The park is open 24 hours a day, 365 days a year with free admission. A $5 parking fee was instituted this past year for those who stop and explore. There are entrances in Gatlinburg, and the ...
U.S. Route 441 (US 441, Newfound Gap Road) is the main road through the park, and runs between Cherokee and Gatlinburg. [104] The Gatlinburg entrance to the park is the busiest, and is also the southern terminus of the Great Smoky Mountains Parkway, a highway which connects the park to Pigeon Forge, Sevierville, and Interstate 40 to the north ...
U.S. Route 441 (US 441) stretches for 83.28 miles (134.03 km) through the mountains of East Tennessee, connecting Rocky Top with Knoxville, Sevierville, Gatlinburg, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, crossing into North Carolina at Newfound Gap.
The stores sold flour, meal, meat, soda, salt, coffee, tobacco, snuff, and castor oil. The stores also bought (or traded for) chickens, eggs, honey, ginseng, and furs, which the store owner would take to Sevierville or Knoxville to trade. [18] Sugarlanders who lived near fords of the Pigeon River had the most lucrative storefronts. Among them ...
The Gatlinburg Trolley, a privately funded public transit system, caters to area tourists. [50] The Gatlinburg SkyLift takes visitors up 1,800 feet (550 m) to the top of Crockett Mountain, [51] to the longest footbridge in the US which spans two mountains. [52] Ober Mountain [53] is the only ski resort in the state. It has eight ski trails ...
The “wild swimming” trend — aka open-water swimming, or taking dips in lakes, rivers, streams or even the sea — isn't exactly new. Still, it has been increasing in popularity over the past ...