Biltmore house tour is awesome
Google it and see if it is of interest to you and the wife.
Google it and see if it is of interest to you and the wife.
Pigeon Forge- need recommendations
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Better check on i40 before you think about coming into n.c. May not be worth the traffic jams. Last time I drove there from the dragon it seemed to take forever. (Not i40). Traffic can be horrible heading to cherokee as well.
The old mill and apple barn are both popular (country style food). I like bullfish myself (love the shrimp and grits or steak). We also do big daddy's for pizza and wings
Side note I actually met my wife at the spring rod run in 93. She's from Sevier county
The old mill and apple barn are both popular (country style food). I like bullfish myself (love the shrimp and grits or steak). We also do big daddy's for pizza and wings
Side note I actually met my wife at the spring rod run in 93. She's from Sevier county
This place in NC is cool also.
haywire 440
Full Speed Ahead
This Red Skeleton Tribute show was good and is the only authorized show approved by the Skeleton estate. My wife and I saw it 10 years ago. It’s in a small theater. Clean jokes and a blast from humor’s past.
Red Skelton Tribute Theater |
Red Skelton Tribute Theater |
Floyd Garrett passed away a few years ago, and as far as I know, his collection has been sold off. While it was in existence, it was an interesting place, and Floyd was an interesting guy. I was there a couple of times.
We went through the Aquarium in Gatlinburg. It was very interesting.
Happy Anniversary.
As sort of a "local" (we're about an hour and a half away from Pigeon Forge), I'm getting a chuckle out of some of
the replies - but understand, we typically don't go within a country mile of that whole corridor a good part of the year...
Too crowded for my taste, unfortunately.
Depending on which source you trust, somewhere in the range of 15 million visitors per year go through the Sevierville/
Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg corridor, many on their way to the most visited national park in the country - The Great Smoky
Mountains.
Well over a $1Billion in tourist money spent through there and there's TONS of ways to spend it down there.
The list of restaurants is endless, as are all the other amenities.
Yes, Floyd Garrett passed away about 4 years ago and had closed his museum right before passing on (many don't know
that most of the cars were actually owned by others, including folks like Ted Stephens and such - although Floyd was a
Chevy nut at heart and would defend the bowtie in friendly banter when you visited the museum back in the day).
Try the exotic car museum in Gatlinburg if that suits you or even the Hollywood car museum if you like.
The Alcatraz East Crime Museum is pretty engrossing stuff; you'll spend hours in there with all the displays and history.
I like the Tennessee Museum of Aviation myself - a very active museum with actual warbirds that they routinely fly
(and used to give rides in, don't know if that's still done).
Finally, yes - I-40 at the TN/NC state line is in a constant state of falling into the Pigeon River (has for many years, honestly).
As widely reported, hurricane Helene absolutely destroyed the interstate (as well as giant, biblical swarths of NC) and
they've been trying to put Humpty back up on the wall there ever since, with equal parts success and failure.
Currently, it's one lane each direction - if it stays up this time, that is.
You literally can't run out of stuff to do and places to eat down there. Plan ahead, be patient and have fun.
Headed to the dam, camping tomorrow for four days and then on to Cades Cove four more days. I’m going to have to drive through some of that mess to get there. Last year, we took the “4 wheel road” from the cove loop to the Tail. We don’t eat out much in that area. Sort of like me avoiding Disney and all that.
Parsons branch out of Cades cove. We used to do it in jeeps before all the ducking jeep bullshit. Pops out in the middle of the dragon. There was a slide on 441 over the weekend. So there's another road to avoid. As far as the Jeter mt apple orchard I wouldn't make that trip from there for it, and it's like 20 minutes from me not 2hrs 45 minutes (my opinion)
My wife was driving her Ford Fiesta and got halfway up a muddy hill on that road and bogged down. I had her back down to where we changed places and I got it up the hill. We call it our little bubba truck.
Not too much experience in that area, just passed thru
Happy Anniversary anyway
Happy Anniversary anyway
Which dam? We got a ton of them 'round these parts.
The Giva Dam?
Douglas dam
Pedalpusher
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All depends what you like to eat, few of my go to places.
Breakfast: Old Mill, walk next door to the general store & grab some triple berry jelly to take home it’s the best. Mel’s Diner, great atmosphere & old rock & roll always playing. Apple Barn is good, service is dicey at times.
Sunliner Diner, best burgers & shakes around. Cold beer & wings, Blue Moose. Local Goat, deep fried deviled eggs & Bison meatloaf. My go to every time…..Huck Finns, catfish & fixins, glass of sweet tea takes both hands to hold. Lastly, Howard’s in Gatlinburg, romantic flare for you & wife renovated patio, over top creek.
The Titanic museum is a must see. Alcatraz is good as well. There is a scenic drive called Roaring Fork motor nature Trail, see original homesteads of the Smokies & old mills, usually always see bears on the drive, cooler drive with trees covering most of drive. Everyone goes to Cades Cove, always congested. There is a picnic area called Chimneys picnic area. Been going there since a kid on vacations, river runs through it, tree covered. They have pull offs to park, with grills & a picnic table. About four miles going in the Smokies. While in Gatlinburg, you have to play HillBilly golf.
Charles Cook mentioned Biltmore, that is really something to see, about an hour away from Pigeon Forge
Enjoy your trip & congratulations!
Ron
Breakfast: Old Mill, walk next door to the general store & grab some triple berry jelly to take home it’s the best. Mel’s Diner, great atmosphere & old rock & roll always playing. Apple Barn is good, service is dicey at times.
Sunliner Diner, best burgers & shakes around. Cold beer & wings, Blue Moose. Local Goat, deep fried deviled eggs & Bison meatloaf. My go to every time…..Huck Finns, catfish & fixins, glass of sweet tea takes both hands to hold. Lastly, Howard’s in Gatlinburg, romantic flare for you & wife renovated patio, over top creek.
The Titanic museum is a must see. Alcatraz is good as well. There is a scenic drive called Roaring Fork motor nature Trail, see original homesteads of the Smokies & old mills, usually always see bears on the drive, cooler drive with trees covering most of drive. Everyone goes to Cades Cove, always congested. There is a picnic area called Chimneys picnic area. Been going there since a kid on vacations, river runs through it, tree covered. They have pull offs to park, with grills & a picnic table. About four miles going in the Smokies. While in Gatlinburg, you have to play HillBilly golf.
Charles Cook mentioned Biltmore, that is really something to see, about an hour away from Pigeon Forge
Enjoy your trip & congratulations!
Ron
Thank you Pedalpusher, exactly what I was looking for.
