Posts By: Tony Perez

About Tony Perez

I'm a people person, and I enjoy the atmosphere that working with Cabins Of The Smoky Mountains entails, interacting with different types of people and trying to relate to each one uniquely. From Michigan originally, I've been coming to the Smoky Mountains since I was a child, with family in Wears Valley. Summer fun for me is exploring the Cades Cove area, swimming in the creeks, and hiking Mount LeConte and many other trails. I love the Smoky Mountains.

2016 Spring Smoky Mountain Trout Tournament

Posted March 30, 2016 by Tony Perez

Image courtesy of Gatlinburg.com

It’s springtime in the Smoky Mountains, and it’s time to go fishing! Saturday and Sunday, April 2-3, the largest trout tournament in the Smokies is held again, in over 20 miles of local streams stocked with thousands of trout.

The 18th Annual Spring Smoky Mountain Trout Tournament is open to all comers, with prizes in many categories. Children are especially well catered to in this family-friendly event. There’s a children’s division as well as an adult division, and a tourist division as well as one for locals.

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Easter 2016 Weekend in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge

Posted March 25, 2016 by Tony Perez

It’s Easter 2016 here in the Smoky Mountains, coming early this year on March 27. Here’s what’s going on through the Easter weekend in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.

If you want to take the kids on an Easter Egg Hunt and to meet the Easter Bunny, then Pigeon Forge gets you the earliest start on Saturday morning, March 26. It’s an excuse to dress the kids up cute, take photographs that last forever, and get everyone all excited. Best of all, the events are Free.

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Dollywood’s 2016 Festival of Nations

Posted March 17, 2016 by Tony Perez

Dollywood opens its 2016 season with its annual Festival of Nations, a smorgasbord of talent from around the world gathering in the Smoky Mountains for a month of exciting shows each day from March 19 through April 18.

Each year, Dollywood reaches out across the globe for some of its finest talent, bringing a world mix of traditional sound and color, updated into stunning and often newly created performances. Food and craft-works mingle with costume, dance, song, acrobatics and funny jokes and antics from more than two dozen countries around the world.

Image courtesy of Dollywood

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2016 Spring Corvette Expo

Posted March 14, 2016 by Tony Perez

Start your engines for the spring season of muscle cars, hot rods, classics and customs, and first out of the gate in 2016 is the annual Spring Corvette Expo in Sevierville.

The Corvette Expo happens Friday and Saturday, March 18-19, at the Sevierville Convention Center. The show features an auction with lots of hot cars, a swap meet, a Corvette Cruise, and cash prizes in several categories for entered cars.

Images courtesy of the Corvette Expo

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A Mountain Quiltfest 2016 in Pigeon Forge

Posted March 10, 2016 by Tony Perez

Springtime in the Smoky Mountains means it’s time again for the massively popular Mountain Quiltfest in Pigeon Forge. 2016 marks the 22nd year of this annual event, held March 15-19 at the LeConte Center.

The festival attracts 20,000 people from across the country and the world, who come to admire the unique and stunning quilts on display. Many attendees will also compete in over 20 categories of quilt design, for more than $22,000 in prizes.

images courtesy of A Mountain Quiltfest

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Country Tonite Theatre Coupons: Get a Free Ticket On Us

Posted February 29, 2016 by Tony Perez

Country Tonite in Pigeon Forge is one of the longest running shows in town, consistently wining awards for its high-energy performance. In 2016, the show enters its 20th year of delighting show goers of all ages, from young to old. Country Tonite is acclaimed as The One Show You Don’t Want to Miss!

And to help YOU catch it, Cabins of the Smoky Mountains offers a Free Adult Ticket to the show as part of our Trip Cash book of free coupons worth over $400.

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Ober Gatlinburg Special Ski Events: Freestyle on the Mountain

Posted February 19, 2016 by Tony Perez

Winter in the Smoky Mountains turns into the best of fun at Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort, just an Aerial Tramway ride away from downtown Gatlinburg.

During the ski season, Ober Gatlinburg holds a number of special events, fun to participate in if you’re an advanced skier, and fun to watch at any level of skill.

Check out this view of the ski area from the air:

A one of a kind view of what Ober Gatlinburg looks like from above! #OberGatlinburg

Posted by Ober Gatlinburg on Wednesday, February 17, 2016

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Tomorrow’s Memories Cabin in Starr Crest Resort

Posted February 18, 2016 by Tony Perez

How can such a large cabin only be a 1-bedroom cabin? That’s the kind of question you hear when guests arrive at Tomorrow’s Memories. Once they’re inside, it’s either dead silence or else, “Omigosh…the view.”

Welcome to this luxury cabin outside of Pigeon Forge, close to Dollywood, perched nicely on a hill slope in the Smoky Mountains, in the renowned Starr Crest Resort. Let’s take a look inside.

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Weddings in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge

Posted February 9, 2016 by Tony Perez

hp-wedding2 Love in the Smoky Mountains – the center of it all is the wedding, and here’s everything you need to know about getting married in the Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge area.

It’s February in the Smoky Mountains and this is a popular month to get married. May and June are the busiest time of all – now, could it be that’s because somebody proposed back on Valentine’s Day? And maybe the couple will come back to their same romantic getaway cabin for a honeymoon? Well, it easily could be.

Love goes around and around in Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge, between engagements, weddings, honeymoons, anniversaries and vow renewals – people fall in love with the Smoky Mountains too, and return again and again. See our latest article: Valentine’s Day 2016: Love in the Smoky Mountains.

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Mountaintop Delight Cabin

Posted January 22, 2016 by Tony Perez

Some people like to be nestled deep in the mountain forest, while others like to be perched on the edge of the mountain looking out at the peaks – and for these people, we present Mountaintop Delight, a 1-bedroom cabin with a perfect sight of Mt. LeConte.