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Tired of I-40? Here's how to get from Knoxville to Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg on backroads
Skip the interstate and explore routes to the Great Smoky Mountains! The bonus is these trips are absolutely gorgeous.
Smoky Mountain Divers wraps up ‘Dive Fest’ with first-timers scuba lesson
A group of community members got to try their hand at scuba diving on Sunday as part of Smoky Mountain Divers, Inc.’s Dive ...
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A year after Helene, river guides in Appalachia are navigating a new world
On a clear, sunny day in May, just a few weeks into the Smoky Mountain rafting season, Heather Ellis took a dozen people ...
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The Massive Flea Market In Tennessee Where $40 Goes A Seriously Long Way
At the Great Smokies Flea Market in Kodak, Tennessee, those same two Jacksons transform into a magic carpet ride through a ...
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The Massive Dollar Store In Tennessee Where You Can Fill A Whole Cart For $35
The Dollar Tree on East Wears Valley Road stands as a monument to frugality in a town designed to separate visitors from their vacation budgets. The green lettering beckons like a beacon of bargain ...
Interstate 40 in the Smoky Mountains reopens faster than expected after rock slide and flooding
Crews on Friday reopened a section of Interstate 40 along its narrow corridor through the Great Smoky Mountains after ...
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‘Y’all. What are we doing?’ Truck routes stressed as semis stuck, slide off small NC mountain roads after I-40 closure
In addition to the I-40 closure, at least 20 North Carolina mountain roads are now listed off limits to large trucks after ...
Trump admin bid would open 80,000-plus acres of area forest to road building, logging
No roads exist in a nearly 10,000-acre expanse straddling Holston Mountain that descends toward South Holston Lake on one ...