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Travel to Pigeon Forge for a Smoky Mountain Christmas

Ashley — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:17:00 GMT

Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg celebrate the holiday season with the starts of Smoky Mountain Winterfest. Over five million lights are aglow on the Parkway, from Sevierville to Gatlinburg. Plenty of magical Christmas scenes and seasonal spirit fill the atmosphere, creating a unique and truly memorable Smoky Mountain Christmas. This is a great time of year to enjoy southern hospitality with spectacular holiday shows & entertainment steeped with tradition. Dollywood’s...(read more)

Down-Home Fun in the Smokies

Ashley — Wed, 20 Jun 2007 22:30:00 GMT

At the gateway to the Smokies, which attract 9 million visitors a year, are Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg, two distinctly different mountain towns on U.S. 441, which bisects the national park. At the park entrance, Gatlinburg has tourist shops and waffle houses, but nature takes center stage: A stream rushes under footbridges and along parks and paths of the walk-able town, while the Ober Gatlinburg tram skins the top of the Alpine-timbered town for a bird's-eye view. Pigeon Forge...(read more)

Vacation Destinations in Tennessee

Ashley — Tue, 15 Aug 2006 16:02:00 GMT

Pigeon Forge, Tennessee-like country music star and local girl Dolly Parton–has attained almost mythic stature. This once-sleepy east Tennessee hamlet has carved out a vacation niche as sweet as hammered chords of a mountain dulcimer.More than 11 million visitors annually cross the blue mist-covered Great Smoky Mountains in search of Pigeon Forge and all things associated with its famous songstress. Pigeon Forge (named for the nearby river and the passenger pigeons that flocked to its banks in the...(read more)