Comfort Inn On River Gatlinburg

... be open when the ride returns are fast food restaurants. The small downtown area will be closed.<br><br>One sad note - Kudzu is starting to overrun the edges of the train route. It covers the banks of the railroad track and surrounding trees for the first few miles, encasing everything including trees. It even covered a truck that had been left in a parking lot. Kudzu is so envasive, it reminds me of the scene in ...

... little Indian ran town set in the Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation land. It featured a MASSIVE casino that I couldn't have even imagined. I've been to Atlantic City which was various monstrosities called casinos too, and I knew that Indian Reservations frequently fronted casinos, but I never thought they'd be so extensive. The town had lots of oddities of tin statues (buffalo, horses, turtles), a nice colorful river, and various Indian themed shops selling baskets (JUST like ...

... to do that another day! ) From the movie (and the website), we learned, to our surprise, that this is the most visited National Park (although we question how they know that, as this is the only one we've ever been to that does not have an entry gate or an entry fee!) With the highway running through the park, I guess they figure every car that comes down 441 South is a "visitor to the park"! The smoky-looking fog that always hangs over ...

... Park area. <br><br>We arrived at our campground, (a small park right on Walden Creek that managed to squeeze a lot of RV's into very little space), at 1:15. We were horrified, when we turned off of I-40 to head into Pigeon Forge, to see traffic at a standstill as far as we could see. Pigeon Forge (Home of Dollywood) and Gatlinburg have become huge tourist attractions, with miles and miles of T-Shirt Shops, Ripley's Believe it ...

... has opened up and it is raining. We work our way to the I-24 interchange and enter the highway to a very slow crawl. This continues to the I-75 Interchange. We pass several accidents along the way. The worst on I-75 where there is a SUV on its roof. Looks like a pretty new vehicle too. The drive up to Knoxville pretty much sucks and is white knuckled most of the way. <br><br>We arrive at our next ...

... the kids just love. Bicycles, tubes for floating down the river. some areas have pretty good rapids parts are slower and relaxing. The bicycle trail starts right there accross the road and runs to the other end of town (5 miles). The Tuckaleechee Caverns are amazing and only cost about $12.00 per person for an almost 2 hour tour and it is open not not cramped like most. Many horseback riding stables. The best one is 1 mile from Lodge and ...

Yesterday was a pretty relaxed day of driving, minus the extreme sticky southern heat. This stuff the horribly disgusting!!!!! We only made a few stops, one was to get our normal beer and glass, we tried to get one at a few places in Nashville but we struck out a lot. So we stopped in Knoxville and we finally got one. After that our mission was complete. We got back on the road and headed to our destination Pigeon Forge, home of ...

It has been many years since I've been in Cherokee and little has changed except for the Casino which is undergoing major expansion. We were nestled into a nice RV park with a brook flowing through it. Cherokee is close to many attractions and we enjoyed our stay there.

... least Gatlinburg is cute and doesn't have any stripmalls. The Red Roof Inn we are staying at is just fine. It's off the main strip (a good thing) but walking distance to anywhere you need to go. We also have a little balcony overlooking the creek behind the hotel.<br><br>This morning we visited the Flapjacks Pancake Cabin. Gatlinburg has an intense number of pancake houses, cabins and pantries. I didn't want to eat pancakes in a pantry, and ...

We found a spot somewhere on the border of North Carolina and Tennessee. It was so beautiful we spent a few days here and did everything.<br><br>We did some white water rafting near our site and met a friend. She was a cat the lived there and loved sleeping in the tent. ha ha ha.... We named her Nantahala, 'Nanta' for short.<br><br>It was Beautiful....