The Great Smoky and Blue Ridge Mountains
Your guide from the Hemlock Inn, Bryson City

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Gatlinburg, Tennessee
Gatlinburg has been a popular (and often crowded) resort town for many years. It is a town you’ll want to stroll through, exploring hundreds of shops, galleries, amusements, and restaurants. Everywhere you turn, you’ll see the majestic peaks of the Smokies, vibrant colors and choral echoes of the season’s flora and wildlife, and you’ll hear the background sounds of a nearby stream.

Gatlinburg is home to the Great Smoky Arts & Crafts Community, recognized internationally as the largest group of independent artisans in North America.

It’s a little place. About two miles long by five miles wide. On its own, just a sleepy little mountain town with mostly good neighbors. A couple of the family names go all the way back to before the 1800’s, some of them. Then there’s a handful more families that can trace back to the White Oak Flats days of 1835. The story goes that Radford Gatlin opened a general store in the 1850’s and agreed to handle the new mail service, so the postmark soon became Gatlinburg.

For more about Gatlinburg, Tennessee, go to RomanticGatlinburg.com.

Directions: Take Hwy. 19 North to Cherokee, turn left at the second traffic light onto Hwy. 441 North. (Note: The first traffic light in Cherokee is just after the Holiday Inn. Go to the next one.) Take 441 through the Smoky Mountains National Park. It's about 48 miles, but allow two hours one way for driving.

 

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Hemlock Inn
Adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park
P.O. Box 2350, Galbraith Creek Rd, Bryson City, NC 28713
phone: 828-488-2885 / fax: 828-488-8985
Reservations taken from 7:30 AM until 11:00 PM EST
e-mail: hemlock@dnet.net

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