
Best Fudge in Pigeon Forge: 8 Top Shops & Where to Go
Pigeon Forge takes its fudge seriously. Up and down the Parkway and tucked into places like Old Mill Square and The Island, candy makers still
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Pigeon Forge takes its fudge seriously. Up and down the Parkway and tucked into places like Old Mill Square and The Island, candy makers still

Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Christmas is one of the most popular reasons to visit the Smokies between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, and that popularity means cabin

The stretch of Newfound Gap Road that climbs to Kuwohi, the peak long known as Clingmans Dome, sits above 5,000 feet along the Tennessee-North Carolina

If you’re staying in or visiting Gatlinburg, you can skip the search for downtown parking almost entirely by riding the city’s trolley system. It’s a

Walk the Parkway in Gatlinburg on any given afternoon and you’ll pass a fudge shop every hundred feet or so, most of them offering free

Gatlinburg’s Parkway has been a candy-maker’s strip since the mid-20th century, and the taffy tradition here is the real deal: sugar cooked in copper kettles,

Every year, travelers planning a trip to Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, or the surrounding Smokies lose their deposit to a cabin that never existed. Scammers copy

If you’ve circled the Parkway more than once looking for a place to leave your car, you already know downtown Gatlinburg’s parking is tight and

If you’re trying to stretch your vacation budget, timing matters more than almost anything else when planning a Smoky Mountains trip. Cabin rates in Gatlinburg

If you’re planning a trip to Cataloochee Valley hoping to see one of the Smoky Mountains’ most impressive wildlife success stories, timing is everything. Elk

Gatlinburg sits right at the edge of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, which means some of the prettiest waterfalls in the Southeast are just a

Downtown Gatlinburg’s Parkway is one of the few places in the country where you can smell a candy shop before you see it. Copper kettles

You brought home a mason jar of Ole Smoky or Sugarlands moonshine from a Gatlinburg distillery tour, and now it’s sitting on the counter looking

Most visitors funnel into the Smokies through Gatlinburg, stacking up in Spur traffic before they’ve even reached a trailhead. There’s a quieter way in: the

A crackling fireplace is one of the biggest draws of a Smoky Mountain cabin getaway, but not all fireplaces are created equal. Some cabins have

Walking into any Ole Smoky store in Gatlinburg means facing a wall of mason jars in every flavor imaginable, and picking just a few to

Not every cabin labeled ‘secluded’ actually is. In the Smokies, that word gets stretched to cover everything from a cabin with genuine acreage and no

The Pigeon Forge Parkway is the single road almost every visitor assumes they have to drive to get anywhere — to Dollywood, to dinner, to

You don’t need a full day or a backcountry permit to see a waterfall in the Great Smoky Mountains. Several of the park’s most photogenic

Every Smoky Mountains trip budget looks reasonable until the cabin’s cleaning fee, the Dollywood tickets, and three restaurant dinners land on the same credit card