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Sunriver Resort is a luxury resort and residential community in central Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest region of the United States. The resort is located at the edge of the high desert, just east of the Cascade Range , in Sunriver , 15 miles (24 km) south of Bend and 180 miles (290 km) south-southeast of Portland .
A disabled moonshine still hung outside the restaurant for advertisement. [1] A water wheel turned a fan in the dining room. A hollowed-out log covered with glass and filled with water and fish served as a bar in the restaurant. A garage dug into the side of a hill housed Perry's car. [3]
Greenbrier residents had always offered lodging to the various loggers, surveyors, and fur trappers who visited the valley, but no major hotel existed that could rival the likes of Andy Huff's Mountain View Hotel in Gatlinburg. In 1925 Kimsey and James West Whaley bought the old Greenbrier schoolhouse (which had burned) and remodeled it as a lodge.
The Gatlinburg Trolley, a privately funded public transit system, caters to area tourists. [50] The Gatlinburg SkyLift takes visitors up 1,800 feet (550 m) to the top of Crockett Mountain, [51] to the longest footbridge in the US which spans two mountains. [52] Ober Mountain [53] is the only ski resort in the state. It has eight ski trails ...
The highest of these springs, known as Basin Spring, provides the water source for LeConte Lodge. [2] From its source, Roaring Fork drops 2,500 feet (760 m) over just two miles (3.2 km), spilling over Grotto Falls and absorbing Surry Creek before steadying in a narrow valley between Mount Winnesoka and Piney Mountain.
Sunriver Airport (IATA: SUO [2], FAA LID: S21) is a public use airport located one nautical mile (2 km) west of the central business district of Sunriver, in Deschutes County, Oregon, United States. It is privately owned by Sunriver Resort , L.P. [ 1 ] This airport is included in the National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2011–2015 ...
Pigeon Forge is a mountain resort city in Sevier County, Tennessee, United States.As of the 2020 census, the city had a total population of 6,343.Situated just 5 miles (8 km) north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination that caters primarily to Southern culture and country music fans.
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 ...