It’s mid-October 2013 in the Smoky Mountains around Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and the leaves on the trees are getting ready to dazzle us with their world-famous Fall colors. Here are the 3 best places to view it all right now. (more…)
Posts By: Carrie Waxler
It’s a Harvest Of Crafts in the Smoky Mountains in Fall 2013
image courtesy of Rogelio Favila
As the season turns in October 2013 it’s Fall in the Smoky Mountains and the time of Harvest Festival has been declared countywide. The leaves turn color and people flock to the area to watch it happen, the towns of Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge dress up as pumpkin patches, and the theme of Harvest is everywhere. (more…)
Federal Shutdown Closes Great Smoky Mountains National Park
image courtesy of Kelseah Lawson
Ugh. The situation in the Gatlinburg & Pigeon Forge area on this October 1, 2013 morning is that Great Smoky Mountains National Park is closed. Highways: US 441 remains open. The Spur and Gatlinburg bypass remain open. The Park itself is still accessible to drive through. (more…)
Have A Handmade Weekend at the Gatlinburg Fine Arts Festival, 2013
images courtesy Fine Arts Festival
In this perfect Fall weather take the whole family this weekend and explore the arts village that appears every year on the campus of Gatlinburg’s downtown jewel, the Arrowmont School of Arts & Crafts. (more…)
Smoky Mountain Fall Trout Tournament 2013
image courtesy of Trout Tournament
The 14th Annual Smoky Mountain Trout Tournament happens this weekend Sat-Sun, September 28-29, offering a fun challenge to several hundred entrants fishing local streams around Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge that have been stocked with thousands of trout specially for the occasion. (more…)
Fast Cars & Mason Jars Moonshine Festival 2013
image courtesy of Moonshine Festival
With all these fast cars running around during September – in the Hot Rod Roundup & Fall Rod Run – surely we can put some of them to good use? (more…)
Sunset in the Smoky Mountains
All the moisture in the air from evaporation and precipitation makes the Smoky Mountains a temperate rain forest, and gives us the mist that mixes the light of the sun in wonderful ways. (more…)
Photo: Great Smoky Mountain Wheel at Night
Have you been to the Island at Pigeon Forge yet? If you’re heading there at night you sure can’t miss this landmark – it’s the Great Smoky Mountain Wheel, a 200-ft tall observation wheel. (more…)
Photo From Heaven’s View Cabin Today
Ah, that Smoky Mountain sky! Photo shows the view today with the storm lifted, from the top of the Gatlinburg Falls Hidden Valley Resort, by our Heaven’s View rental cabin. Friday 13th, September 2013. (more…)
Hot Rod Roundup & Run in Pigeon Forge
images courtesy of the Hot Rod Roundup
Pigeon Forge will fill up with hot rods, custom cars and fantastic paint jobs again next week as the 2013 Shades of the Past Hot Rod Roundup is held at Dollywood’s Splash Country, on Friday and Saturday, September 6-7. (more…)
