Situated 5 miles north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination that caters to Southern culture and country music fans

How to Get There

Overview

Situated 5 miles (8 km) north of Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Pigeon Forge is a tourist destination that caters to Southern culture and country music fans. The city's attractions include Dollywood and Dollywood's Splash Country as well as numerous gift shops, outlet malls, amusement rides, and musical theaters.

Pigeon Forge Mill: Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975, this working gristmill, also known as Old Mill, is on the West Fork of the Little Pigeon River (along its east bank), and is accessible via Old Mill Drive (which intersects the Parkway at Light #7). The site includes a millhouse, milldam, and breastshot wheel.

Geography

The West Fork of the Little Pigeon River flows north from its source high on the slopes of Mount Collins through Sevier County before linking up with the Middle Fork in Sevierville. Pigeon Forge occupies a narrow valley along this river between Sevierville and Gatlinburg. High ridges surround Pigeon Forge on three sides, with Pine Mountain to the west, Shields Mountain to the east, and Cove Mountain to the south. A bend in the Little Pigeon provides the city's northern border with Sevierville, and a narrow gorge cut by the river between Cove Mountain and Shields Mountain acts as the city's boundary with Gatlinburg.

U.S. Route 441, known as "The Parkway", runs through the middle of Pigeon Forge en route to Gatlinburg and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, where it crests at Newfound Gap before descending to Cherokee, North Carolina. The six-lane strip along US-441 contains most of Pigeon Forge's tourist attractions. U.S. Route 321 (known as Wears Valley Road in Pigeon Forge) connects the town with Wears Valley and Townsend to the west. Teaster Lane runs along the eastern side of the city and serves as a local four-lane road bypassing some of the Parkway and is relatively undeveloped, except a few shopping centers. TN-449 serves as a bypass for both Sevierville and most of Pigeon Forge and directly connects with Dollywood.

Attractions

• Paula Deen's Lumberjack Feud Show & Adventure Park
• Buttonwillow Civil War Theater
• TopJump Trampoline & Extreme Arena
• Crave Golf Club
• Titanic Museum
• Cooter's Place
• Alcatraz East Crime Museum
Southern Gospel Museum and Hall of Fame
• Country Tonite Theatre
• Paula Deen's Lumberjack Feud
• Comedy Barn Theater
• WonderWorks Children's Museum
• Smoky Mountain Opry
• Elvis & Hollywood Legends Museum
• Hatfield and McCoy Dinner Feud
• The Tomb Escape Adventure
• Biblical Times Dinner Theater
• Red Skelton Tribute Theater
• Flyaway Indoor Skydiving
• NASCAR Speedpark
• Smoky Mountain Alpine Coaster
• Jurassic Jungle Boat Ride
• Hollywood Wax Museum Pigeon Forge
• The Island in Pigeon Forge (featuring the Great Smoky Mountain Wheel)
• Tribute to Frank Sinatra & The Rat Pack
• The Island Show Fountains
American Oldies Theater
• Grand Majestic Dinner Theater
• Great Smoky Mountain Murder Mystery
• Ripken Experience
• Seasonal events such as Winterfest

Car and truck shows

Pigeon Forge has various entertainment opportunities for car and truck enthusiasts. The calendar of car and truck show events varies each year.

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article "Pigeon Forge, Tennessee", and "Cummins Falls", which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0