Area Attractions

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Recommended Attraction on the Parkway – Dolly Parton’s Stampede!

August 12, 2018

The first and best known dinner-and-show attraction in East Tennessee, or maybe Tennessee in its entirety, is Dolly Parton’s Stampede! Formerly known as Dixie Stampede, this attraction is owned and operated by the same folks who handle many of Dolly Parton’s attractions in Pigeon Forge such as Smoky Mountain Adventure, Dollywood and Dolly’s Splash Country. You and your group get served a 4-course feast while you witness a breathtaking salute to the South with horses, acrobatics, song performances and much more.

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Recommended Attractions on the Parkway – Country Tonite Theater

August 9, 2018

Pigeon Forge’s most prominent music-focused theater in the region, Country Tonite is THE place fans who wanted to see the best in Smoky Mountain Country music talent perform the best in Smoky Mountain Country music. They are located in a huge, 1,500 capacity, multi-million dollar theater and are particularly known for their “Celebrity Concert” series where touring talent famous in Southern music such as Tanya Tucker, Neal McCoy, The Oak Ridge Boys, Loretta Lynn, T.G. Sheppard and more.

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Recommended Attractions on the Parkway – Wonderworks

August 6, 2018

Wonder only begins to describe Wonderworks’ museum in Pigeon Forge! There is practically nothing like this all throughout the county – a huge interactive fun zone where science, technology, illusions and things you thought were impossible all collide into a memorable experience you and your kids will talk about for years to come. Get inside real disaster simulators and experience earthquakes and hurricanes in a safe environment, or build your own rollercoaster, or even do a real life psychic brain battle! You won’t trust your senses by the time you’re done at Wonderworks!

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Recommended Attractions on the Parkway – The Comedy Barn

August 2, 2018

Pretty much the gold standard in family theater entertainment in Sevier County, the Comedy Barn is every bit as iconic for its longevity and wide appeal to thousands, thousands and thousands of Smoky Mountain visitors for over 20 years. You get the full experience here – music, jokes, trained animal tricks by well-trained and taken care of dogs, cats, birds, pigs and donkeys, guitars, banjos, clogging and antics that will make memories to last for a few decades at least!

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Recommended Attractions on the Parkway – Smoky Mountain Opry

July 30, 2018

The Smoky Mountain Opry theater in Pigeon Forge is one of the biggest, most dynamic theater venues in the Smokies, and that really says something! Their theater is located in the same district as the Titanic Museum and Hard Rock Cafe and their opulent outside decorations are a sure sign you’ve found the Smoky Mountain Opry! And there’s even more incredible sights and sounds inside once the show begins!

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Golf Courses in the Smoky Mountains

July 10, 2018

Are you a fan of the links? Planning on bringing a set of irons and woods to your Smoky Mountain trip? Whether you understand the lingo and answer with an enthusiastic “Yes!” or don’t but are intrigued at where this introduction is going, get ready for an updated look at what the Smoky Mountains can offer you for professional golf courses in Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Sevierville.

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dollywood grist mill and dollywood express

Dollywood’s Got The Rides!

April 11, 2018

People come to the Smokies for a lot of reasons throughout the year, and many of those reasons ultimately add up to Dollywood; the second-most popular attraction in the history of the Smoky Mountains with only the mountains themselves (and the National Park) topping the level of attraction Dollywood brings to our area. The reason for Dollywood’s success is simple: three decades of providing serious, high quality entertainment with shows, festivals, arts and crafts and, most definitely, the rides.

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Dollywood Harvest Festival and LumiNights 2017

October 15, 2017

Dollywood is currently in full swing for their Harvest Festival and LumiNights celebrations for 2017. These pictures were taken by Ge’ne Kea-Lawhead and all copyright belongs to her.

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Alcatraz East Museum in Pigeon Forge

November 17, 2016

Pigeon Forge is getting a new museum attraction in central downtown that isn’t quite like anything else around – The Alcatraz East Crime Museum.

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Smoky Mountain Jeep Rental Photography by Eric Gebhart

May 19, 2016

Photographer Eric Gebhart has done some absolutely exquisite photography for our line of Smoky Mountain jeeps. Take a look!

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New Developments in the Smokies For April 2016

April 11, 2016

It’s Springtime, so those of you looking for attractions and reasons to come to the Smokies probably have a decent idea of what’s going on right now – Festival of the Nations at Dollywood, the Spring Rod Run, Ripley’s Aquarium and so on. We could use this blog space to talk about them the same as most other area information blogs, but there’s so many new that have come in this season and still coming in that we’d like to share with you news on that instead for now.

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Dolly To Buy The Island, Make It Float By 2020.

April 1, 2016

At a press conference today, Dolly Parton’s management company announced plans to purchase the entire 23-acre property, as well as the businesses and people therein, and infuse it with breakthrough technology to turn it into an airborne attraction by 2020. It will be re-branded as “Dolly Parton’s Island In The Stream”.