Activity Type: Hiking

Nearby City: Gatlinburg

Length: 24.7 total miles

Elevation Gain: Minimal

Trail Type: Point-to-point

Skill Level: Strenuous

Duration: 16-18 hours

Trailhead Elevation: 5,045 feet

Top Elevation: 6,250 feet

Local Contacts: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, (865) 436-1200

Local Maps: Trails Illustrated: Great Smoky Mountains National Park, TN-NC

Highland Manor Inn And Conference Center is a family operated and has country-inn atmosphere with 49 rooms. From the hotel you get to see beautiful Mountain view. The rooms are exceptionally clean and  well maintained with private balconies, whirlpools ,fireplaces. The hotel provides complimentary Continental Breakfast. One can go for hiking, golfing, biking and fishing.

River Terrace Resort provides free guest parking while you enjoy the scenic Riverwalk along front of the property, well landscaped grounds including covered bridge entrance, gazebo, picnic areas. The hotel has the best fishing in the Smokies.  You can park your car and walk to shops and attractions. The hotel provides On-site catering facilities and has  20,000 square feet of meeting/banquet space.

You would love visiting the Cooter’s Garage, if you like “The Dukes of Hazzard” (people irrespective of their age and gender love it).  It is the only Dukes of Hazzard museum, you would find at Gatlinburg’s. Ben Jones will be your host in Hazard county and the shop is operated by your very own ol’ “Cooter” himself. If you had liked the hit television show, you would love to see the pictures, props, costumes, and memorabilia, which were used in the show. Apart from this the other added attractions include Indoor Duke’s Themed Go-Karts and The Hazzard Country Club 18-hole Mini-Golf Course.

The cottages are spread over 8 acres and can accommodate 2 to 10 people in each individual cottage. There is something for everyone and these include swim in our heated pool, have a picnic, wade in the stream, go to our playground. You will find that most of the cottages are situated near streams and guests love relaxing under the canopy of trees.

Do you want to have fun? Do you like cool lights and pumping music, which are accompanied by 3D special effects? You would want to reach out and touch the sharks, dinosaurs and other characters, which appear on the screen. The images are so realistic, you would be jumping out of your seats and this is possible due to the special effect movie selection, which is available. You can also choose to ride your favorite car or play a game of golf  in one of the coolest setting known as  ”Under the Seas” course.

The fun does not end here as your vacation pass will enable you to pick any three activities of your choice and come back again and play for free.

Ripley’s® Aquarium of the Smokies is literally teaming with life – our 10,000 exotic sea creatures comprise more than 350 individual species. There are more fish in this aquarium than there are people living in the entire town of Gatlinburg. Although Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies is hundreds of miles from the ocean, the scenic beauty and the abundance of water all around make the town of Gatlinburg a “natural” location for a world-class aquarium, America’s most fun aquarium.

HOURS OF OPERATION

• SUNDAY–THURSDAY 9 am to 9 pm
• FRIDAY & SATURDAY 9 am to 11 pm
• Memorial Day to Labor Day – 9 am to 11 pm daily
  

  Open 365 Days a Year