Dollywood vs Silver Dollar City: Which Park Wins?
Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, are sister parks with the same corporate roots, similar mountain-craft themes, and genuinely
Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri, are sister parks with the same corporate roots, similar mountain-craft themes, and genuinely
Two valleys in Great Smoky Mountains National Park keep coming up when people ask where to see wildlife: Cades Cove on the Tennessee side and
Gatlinburg is one of the few destinations where you genuinely have two very different ways to sleep at night: a downtown hotel room a block
Mount LeConte is the third-highest peak in the Great Smoky Mountains and one of the most popular overnight hikes in the park, thanks largely to
If you’ve only got a day or two in the Smokies, you probably can’t do both Dollywood and Anakeesta justice — and you don’t need
Picking between Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge for a couples trip trips up a lot of first-time visitors, mostly because the two towns sit just a
If you’re planning a Smoky Mountains trip with kids, chances are both Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies in Gatlinburg and WonderWorks in Pigeon Forge have
Great Smoky Mountains National Park is home to more flowering plant species than any other national park in the country, and for about eight weeks
Gatlinburg’s parkway can turn into a parking lot on a summer Saturday, and if you’ve ever sat in bumper-to-bumper traffic just trying to reach your
Downtown Gatlinburg’s Parkway is stunning during Winter Magic, but on weekend evenings it turns into a slow shuffle of strollers, tour buses, and bumper-to-bumper traffic
Rainbow Falls is one of the tallest single-drop waterfalls in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and the trail leading to it is one of the
If you drove to the Chimney Tops trailhead on Newfound Gap Road expecting to scramble up the twin rock pinnacles you’ve seen in photos, you
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
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
Mount LeConte Lodge is the only backcountry lodge in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and it’s famously hard to book. There are no roads to
Newfound Gap Road (US 441) is the only road that crosses all the way through Great Smoky Mountains National Park, climbing from about 1,300 feet
Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail is a 5.5-mile, one-way loop road just outside Gatlinburg that packs old-growth forest, tumbling mountain streams, preserved 1800s log cabins,
If you showed up in Gatlinburg expecting to hit the trail with your dog, you probably already got the bad news at the trailhead: Great