Gatlinburg, Tennessee, is chock-full of entertainments and is surrounded by the country’s most well liked national park. Whether you stay here for two days or a week, with your whole family or just the two of you, it’s going to be a vacation you’ll remember for a whole life. Most of the visitors have been to Gatlinburg before. Perhaps it began with their parents or grandparents, but now it’s an yearly retreat. If you have never been here, then it is time to start a convention of your own.

Irrespective of where you stay in Gatlinburg, you’ll be snuggled in the mountains. Great views abound. Select from a wide range of Gatlinburg hotels, motels and cabins. You can’t go wrong with either selection. Whether it’s’s the “something for everyone” facet of this fun mountain town or the allure of the encompassing natural beauty, this is the ideal family tradition.

You have seen mountains before. But nothing can prepare you for the grand wonder of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

You have seen the sun rise in the mornings. But have you seen the sun reflecting off a breath taking frost covering acres of forest? Perhaps you have tasted freshly griddled trout, but have you eaten one that you lately pulled from a stream? The Great Smoky Mountains National Park offers more than eight hundred miles of lovely hiking trails, horseback riding, backcountry camping, trout fishing and endless family fun.

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