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GATLINBURG, Tenn., June 19, 2013 /PRNewswire-iReach/ — Cabins of a Smoky Mountains, one of a largest operators of Gatlinburg cabin rentals, has announced a further of thirteen new cabins to a family. The new additions move a association to a sum of 360 let cabins in and around Gatlinburg and Pigeon Forge.
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“We’re unequivocally happy some-more cabin owners have selected us to conduct their properties,” says Billy Parris, ubiquitous manager of Cabins of a Smoky Mountains, “It’s a pointer of certainty in a team.”
All of a new cabins are located nearby Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, and simulate a company’s flourishing participation there.
Cabins of a Smoky Mountains began a life as Gatlinburg Falls Resort, a review area dual miles from downtown Gatlinburg.
“About half of a cabins are still located during Gatlinburg Falls,” says Parris, “But as we’ve grown, we’ve combined cabins via a area.”
Parris adds, “It creates clarity for us to offer some-more cabins for people who wish to stay closer to Pigeon Forge.”
Pigeon Forge is a executive stadium of a Smokies and is famous for tip traveller attractions and shows. Gatlinburg also offers good attractions, says Parris, as good as vicinity to a Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The thirteen new cabins operation from a one-bedroom “Tranquility,” that rents during rates from $180, to a six-bedroom “Eagle Lodge” cabin, that sleeps twelve and rents from $550 per night. All of a cabins underline fine amenities such as epicurean kitchens, home theaters and diversion rooms.
Over 200,000 guest stay with Cabins of a Smoky Mountains any year. The association is famous for a high turn of service, that is one of a reasons Southern Living Magazine named it a “Best Family Resort in a Smokies.”
For some-more information about Cabins of a Smoky Mountains, revisit a company’s website during www.cabinsofthesmokymountains.com or call (866) 347-6659.
About Cabins of a Smoky Mountains
Cabins of a Smoky Mountains facilities over 360 cabins within mins of Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and a Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The association has been named a “Best Family Resort in a Smokies” by Southern Living Magazine.
For some-more information, hit during Cabins of a Smoky Mountains, 653 Hidden Valley Rd., Gatlinburg, TN 37738, (865) 277-1160 or (866) 347-6659. Visit their website during http://www.cabinsofthesmokymountains.com.
Media Contact: Billy Parris, Cabins of a Smoky Mountains, (865) 277-1160, guestcare@gatlinburgfallsresort.com
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The Great Smoky Mountains National Park had the highest May visitation on record for this past May. Visitation for May 2013 was up 10.5 percent, compared with May 2012. During this past May, a total of 885,860 visitors came into the park, which is 86,200 more than in 2012. 
However, visitation so far this year is down overall. January through May 2013 visitation is 5.5 percent below the five-year average of January to May visitation. The park has recorded 2,506,300 visitors, which is 273,002 less than what was seen during the same period in 2012.
Newfound Gap Road, which connects Gatlinburg, Tenn., the park’s busiest entrance, with Cherokee, had been closed from Jan. 16-April 15 while construction work was done to repair a major landslide. That caused a large drop in visitation for most of this year.
The park straddling the North Carolina-Tennessee border is still the most visited national park in the country, with nearly 9.7 million visitors in 2012, up 7.5 percent from the year before.
Visitation for Entrances:
Gatlinburg: 277,703
Townsend: 136,087
Oconaluftee: 166,067
Outlying areas, including Cherokee: 306,103
For more on the park, visit www.nps.gov/grsm.
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Rangers in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park helped to rescue a 53-year-old hiker who was struck by a descending tree during a charge and has mixed injuries.
The park use pronounced in a news recover on Friday that Nathan Lipsom of Cambridge, Mass., was hiking on Low Gap Trail on Thursday when a charge strike around 4 p.m. A ranger detected a harmed hiker around 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Due to a series of downed trees in a park that blocked trails, a helicopter from North Carolina airlifted him around 6:45 p.m. EDT Friday. He was sent to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C.
A National Weather Service organisation reliable that an EF-1 hurricane strike a Cosby area on Thursday.
A great blue heron snacks in the waters of the Little Pigeon River. Behind me, the mist settles in the meadow as horses nibble their breakfast. The winding road behind me leads to the hills and hollers of the Appalachian foothills; a landscape shaped by generations of small farmers who, by necessity, taught their cows to graze vertical pastures.
On the other side of the river, a giant blue and green helium balloon ascends on its tether, then goes back down, then up again with a new load of tourists. I can hear theme music wafting over from the Titanic Museum, and preaching coming from some other loudspeaker.
It’s on the Pigeon Forge strip: five miles of hotels, theaters and family attractions. Rising beyond are the majestic Smoky Mountains, wrapped in the mist for which they are named.
The Appleview River Resort in Sevierville, where we stayed during our trip to the Tennessee Smokies, is perched on that line between scenic countryside and bustling entertainment complex, between the sublime and the ridiculous.
That combination of natural beauty and man-made fun is what makes the Smokies one of the nation’s most popular tourist destinations. It also gives visitors the chance to customize their experience. You can spend your time deep in the hills or right in the center of the action, stay with your kids in a big resort with an indoor water park, or hide away in a cabin with a view you’ll never forget.
The main attraction is the Great Smoky Mountains National Park: half a million acres of deep woods, sparkling waterfalls, scenic vistas and restored pioneer homesteads. It is the nation’s most visited national park, and one of the few that doesn’t charge admission, mostly because it’s accessible from so many points.
The main road across the Smokies runs from Gatlinburg, Tenn., to Cherokee, N.C., with Clingmans Dome, at 6,643 feet, the highest peak in the national park at about the half-way mark. The road is closed regularly for snow or landslides, but the views are spectacular. Other roads into the park are less crowded and just as rewarding. Greenbrier, a few miles east of Gatlinburg, is a fine place to picnic along the creek. The Roaring Fork Motor Nature trail is a nice, short introduction to the land and its heritage.
Better yet, go to Cades Cove, one of the prettiest spots on the continent, where horses still graze as they have for centuries, on pastures surrounded by mountains.
Gatlinburg, nestled in the hills at the park’s entrance, is the older, more established tourist center. Compact and walkable, it has riverside hotels, a ski area and shops that range from classy to chintzy. Its newest attractions are distilleries offering free samples of legal mountain moonshine.
Pigeon Forge, just down the road, has room for water slides, ziplines, go-carts and mini-golf, for large hotels and attractions like the Hollywood Wax Museum and the Titanic Museum. It’s also the place for dinner theaters, mostly featuring live country music and cornball comedy.
The best attraction in Pigeon Forge is Dollywood, a theme park dedicated to, and owned by, country music legend Dolly Parton. It’s got all the rides the kids expect at a major theme park (regular admission runs $56), with extra helpings of mountain heritage and music.
This spring, Dollywood went global with its “Festival of Nations.” You wouldn’t expect to hear Central African a capella singers and Incan panflute players at a park built around a country music icon, but good music is good music, and it’s part of what makes Dollywood much more than a collection of roller coasters.
Sevierville, just north of Pigeon Forge, is shaping its own identity as a tourist destination, while holding on to its identity as the county seat of Sevier (pronounced “severe”) County. It has created a shopping district featuring dozens of brand-name retailers, and built a new convention center/golf/resort complex.
But don’t forget the back roads. Smaller Smokies villages like Pittman Center, Cosby and Townsend offer all the charms without the crowds. Zipline through a wooded holler at Foxfire Mountain; fish, hike or camp in Wears Valley. You may find the drive to be more memorable than the destination.
With its central location and temperate climate, the Smokies has seasons to suit most anyone. Southerners flock here in the summer for days less stifling and nights more comfortable than back home. They come in the winter for a chance to see snow. Northerners can come in April to start their spring early (don’t miss the wildflowers), and in November to stretch out the fall. September in the Smokies is a gem of a month, when the summer heat lifts just as the tourists thin out.
The Tennessee Smokies have something for every season – and for every visitor’s taste.
If you go
Planning a trip to the Smokies? Here are a few places to start:
Great Smoky Mountains National Park: www.nps.gov/grsm
Gatlinburg Chamber of Commere: 800-588-1817; www.gatlinburg.com
Pigeon Forge Department of Tourism: 800-251-9100; www.mypigeonforge.com
Sevierville Chamber of Commerce: 888-738-4378; www.visitsevierville.com
Dollywood: 800-365-5996; www.dollywood.com
Foxfire Mountain Ziplining Adventure: 865-453-1998; www.foxfiremountain.com
Moonshine Distillery: 903 Parkway, Gatlinburg: 865-436-6995; www.olesmokymoonshine.com
Appleview River Resort, Sevierville: 877-705-2379; appleviewresort.com
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — A giveaway march on “leave no trace” use of a backcountry is entrance adult this month in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The two-day giveaway march will be Jun 22 and 23, though registration is compulsory by Monday.
The eventuality will be during a Big Creek Horse Camp nearby Waterville, N.C., and is sponsored by a Great Smoky Mountains Association.
The outside ethics of leave no snippet camping, both for hikers and route riders, will be taught. Students who finish a module will be approved to learn a beliefs to other hikers, campers and riders.
The Backcountry Horsemen of North Carolina will learn how to revoke a impact of batch on a trails.
Registration and information can be had by job Christine Hoyer during (856) 436-1265.
GATLINBURG, Tenn. (AP) — Rangers in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park helped to rescue a 53-year-old hiker who was struck by a descending tree during a charge and has mixed injuries.
The park use pronounced in a news recover on Friday that Nathan Lipsom of Cambridge, Mass., was hiking on Low Gap Trail on Thursday when a charge strike around 4 p.m. A ranger detected a harmed hiker around 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Due to a series of downed trees in a park that blocked trails, a helicopter from North Carolina airlifted him around 6:45 p.m. EDT Friday. He was sent to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C.
A National Weather Service organisation reliable that an EF-1 hurricane strike a Cosby area on Thursday.
GATLINBURG, Tenn. —
Rangers in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park helped to rescue a 53-year-old hiker who was struck by a descending tree during a charge and has mixed injuries.
The park use pronounced in a news recover on Friday that Nathan Lipsom of Cambridge, Mass., was hiking on Low Gap Trail on Thursday when a charge strike around 4 p.m. A ranger detected a harmed hiker around 11:30 a.m. on Friday.
Due to a series of downed trees in a park that blocked trails, a helicopter from North Carolina airlifted him around 6:45 p.m. EDT Friday. He was sent to Mission Hospital in Asheville, N.C.
A National Weather Service organisation reliable that an EF-1 hurricane strike a Cosby area on Thursday.
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — A giveaway march on “leave no trace” use of a backcountry is entrance adult this month in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
The two-day giveaway march will be Jun 22 and 23, though registration is compulsory by Monday.
The eventuality will be during a Big Creek Horse Camp nearby Waterville, N.C., and is sponsored by a Great Smoky Mountains Association.
The outside ethics of leave no snippet camping, both for hikers and route riders, will be taught. Students who finish a module will be approved to learn a beliefs to other hikers, campers and riders.
The Backcountry Horsemen of North Carolina will learn how to revoke a impact of batch on a trails.
Registration and information can be had by job Christine Hoyer during (856) 436-1265.
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — Volunteers in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park will denote a work that women traditionally did in a past.
On Saturday, Jun 15, visitors to a Mountain Farm Museum can watch open abode cooking, soap making, corn strip crafts and other southern Appalachian farming work that women did prolonged ago.
There will also be exhibits of artifacts and photos and an audio vaunt of a final child innate in a Davis-Queen House, that will be open for tours.
The eventuality is giveaway and is from 10 a.m. – 4 p.m. EDT.
The museum is on a North Carolina side of a park, subsequent to a Oconaluftee (oh-kon-ah-LUF’-tee) Visitor Center on Newfound Gap Road.
GATLINBURG, Tenn. — A lot of a route work in a Great Smoky Mountains National Park is finished by volunteers. There is another use event Jun 1.
It is a 21st National Trails Day and volunteers are indispensable to assistance say a Appalachian Trail.
Volunteers need stout shoes, adequate celebration H2O and will need to container a lunch. At a finish of a day, volunteers will be treated to a cruise during Melcalf Bottoms and get a commemorative T-shirt.
There’s a $25 registration fee, that goes to unite route projects in a Smokies.
For some-more information or to obtain a registration form, revisit a Friends of Great Smoky Mountains National Park website at: http://www.friendsofthesmokies.org/events.html or hit Holly Scott during (865) 932-4794.
