News and information concerning Gatlinburg, Tennessee, a popular tourist community located on the border of the Great Smoky Mountains.
Gatlinburg will welcome the arrival of 2013 in unique style with its 25th Annual New Year’s Eve Ball Drop and Fireworks Show around the intersection of Parkway and Historic Nature Trail at the base of the Space Needle late Saturday night, December 31. At the stroke of midnight on Jan. 1, 2013, the Space Needle
The Smoky Mountains Songwriters Festival is a special event of the city of Gatinburg being held to “Celebrate Our Appalachian Musical Roots.” World renowned “HIT” makers and singer/songwriters will fill venues with ongoing performances in downtown Gatlinburg, Aug. 23-25. >> Read Complete Article
If things go as 805 Parkway Partners hope, downtown could become home to another chairlift. The proposed site plan, presented at Tuesday’s City Commission workshop to discuss the request for right-of-way usage, includes a restaurant, parking lot and chairlift up the mountainside, to a two-story structure consisting of a restaurant and gift shop. >> Read
Employees at Ole Smoky Candy Kitchen were in for a surprise Wednesday morning, as they found themselves greeted by a bear upon entering the shop. “It was scary inside here,” said supervisor Harold Wright as he motioned around the shop. “I was afraid it might do something (or harm someone). I was glad to get
Noah “Bud” Ogle and his wife Cindy first settled in what is now Gatlinburg in 1879. On their 400 acre farm they built the cabin that still stands near downtown Gatlinburg. Located on Airport Road near the start of the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail, the Ogle cabin is a great place to visit to
This is a photo that was taken alongside the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail near Gatlinburg. It was taken out the car window as the cubs and their mother foraged around near the road for several minutes. The young cubs were obviously in the early process of just learning how to climb trees. Click for larger
