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From mypigeonforge.com: “Online Class Registration: Tuesday, March 7 @ 10AM EST Quilting Classes: June 5 – June 8 Quilt Show & Vendor Hall Open: June 6 […]

VisitSevierville.com writes: “Sevierville’s nineteenth annual Bloomin’ BBQ Music & Food Festival will take place May 19-20, 2023. This family-friendly event will once again bring barbeque cook […]

VisitMySmokies.com writes: “Country Music Star Set to Headline at This Year’s Patriot Festival in Pigeon Forge Each year, Pigeon Forge gets decked out in red, white, […]

This year’s annual Smoky Mountain Scottish Festival is taking place at the Townsend Visitor’s Center in, you guessed it, Townsend, TN, on the main road on […]

Reposted From The Pigeon Forge Tourism Page: “The Rotary Spring Craft Fair starts two weeks from yesterday on Friday April 21st and runs through Saturday April […]

It is possible you’ve heard the news already, but if not, we’ll be happy to introduce you to it here. Beginning March 1st, 2023, the Smoky […]

Courtesy of My Pigeon Forge: Chuck Wagon Cookoff Weekend & Competition Mar 3 – Mar 5 “Pigeon Forge invites Western lifestyle enthusiasts, foodies and those in […]

So what’s Sevier County got in store for New Years Eve parties for 2023? Here’s what the cities are posting: Pigeon Forge: New Years Eve Celebration […]

The city of Gatlinburg has no shortage of restaurants to serve just about every taste under the sun, but one of our favorite places that we […]

Home of Green Ideas Hemp! We’re a small café home to Green Ideas and serving locally roasted organic coffee as well as specially blended teas and […]

As of writing, it has just turned October of 2022 and the gorgeous Autumn colors and season is now going to start coming into the Smokies. […]

Like the title says, these are Pigeon Forge Autumn events coming up for the big Autumn Harvest Festival month of October. These take place either in […]

It is late May and the Summer season is right around the corner in the Smokies (and the rest of the hemisphere, obviously), we wanted to […]

The Smoky Mountains are nothing if not amazing to see while driving the many roads we have going through the woods – although semantically that ain’t […]

One of the longest-in-process projects with an interesting backstory in recent Pigeon Forge history (whose name is not “The Island”) is the area now known as […]

Want to know what some of the most varied unsung heroes of Smoky Mountain tourism are? If you guessed “The fudge and candy shops in the […]

The Great Smoky Mountains are famous for its many ways to allow visitors to see miles and miles and miles of thick, forested foliage with unbelievable […]

Little River Road between Gatlinburg and Townsend, TN, is one of the many Smoky Mountain road trips our area provides to visitors who want to experience […]

Have you ever heard of the Tail of the Dragon? No, that’s not a pretext to a medieval epic, the Tail of the Dragon is one […]

The Great Smoky Mountains are known for their native brook and brown trout, and Gatlinburg and the National Park have over 2,800 miles of rivers and […]

By now, most visitors to the Great Smoky Mountains are surely aware that famous Seviervillain Dolly Parton has a water park in addition to her own […]

When’s the last time you flew down a wooden structure at more than 60 MPH? Do you remember within the last 6 years spinning in both […]

Barbecue is a staple of Southern cuisine. It’s not cheap, but it’s always reliable and has a solid variety of ways it can be served. Pigeon […]

Smoky Mountain Rod Runs are something of a source of controversy in Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and the surrounding communities. Both famous and infamous, our automotive events […]

Cabin Rental Savings may be a topic in your home as you plan to visit the Smoky Mountains. It can be overwhelming when searching for a […]

Those of you who have driven through Gatlinburg at any point in the last few months may have noticed a big change at the north end […]

While the Smoky Mountains might not see round-the-clock cold temperatures or particularly heavy snowfall every winter, we are aware much of the rest of our visitors […]

The end of the year only comes once a year and we like to punctuate the change and transition by ending the previous cycle and beginning […]

Pigeon Forge has a museum attraction in central downtown that isn’t quite like anything else around – The Alcatraz East Museum on the parkway in front […]

Affordable vacations? Is that still possible? Absolutely, you can plan an affordable vacation in the Smoky Mountains for yourself, your family, and or friends. Working with […]

March and the Spring revival of the Smokies are going to be here sooner than you think and we wanted to give our readers a heads-up […]

Making a decision to visit the Smoky Mountains and stay in a cabin is where the imagination begins about the quality time you will be spending […]

Cabin Investment is an idea that has been around this area for many decades. Early in the 1960s, the rental business began in Gatlinburg and has […]

One of the newer farm wedding venues in our region has nevertheless been rocking the reservations numbers like an awesome veteran in the Smoky Mountain wedding […]

Gatlinburg and the surrounding Smoky Mountains center in on being among the popular places for groups of all kinds, from every country on Earth, in East […]