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Gatlinburg SkyPark. Do you dare walk on the Gatlinburg SkyBridge, the longest pedestrian cable bridge in North America? The chair lift, bridge and more activities are open for spring break ...
The 2016 Great Smoky Mountains wildfires, also known as the Gatlinburg wildfires, [1] were a complex of wildfires which began in late November 2016. Some of the towns most impacted were Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg , both near Great Smoky Mountains National Park .
Gatlinburg is a city in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States. It is located 39 miles (63 km) southeast of Knoxville and had a population of 3,577 at the 2020 census. [7] It is a popular mountain resort town, as it rests on the border of Great Smoky Mountains National Park along U.S. Route 441.
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 ...
The Gatlinburg Space Needle is a 407 feet (124 m) tall observation tower in Gatlinburg, Tennessee, United States. The tower has an outdoor observation deck that provides a 360 degree view of the Great Smoky Mountains and the city of Gatlinburg. [1] Upon completion in 1969, it was the second tallest tower in the state of Tennessee.
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The Albright Grove along the Maddron Bald Trail (between Gatlinburg and Cosby) is an accessible old-growth forest with some of the oldest and tallest trees in the entire range. [ 24 ] Over 130 species of trees are found among the canopies of the cove hardwood forests in the Smokies.
View of Gatlinburg and Mount LeConte from an overlook on the Gatlinburg Bypass. The need for a bypass around Gatlinburg was reportedly first raised when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was established in 1934. [3] Preliminary planning for the bypass began in the mid-1950s as tourism to the national park surged during the post-World War ...