The Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the most visited national park in the United States - and is within an 8 hour drive of more than 60% of the country's population. Over 10 million people visit this region each year - with some projections that this number may double over the next five years. The value of real estate in this area continues to grow - both because of people moving to this scenic area to live and to retire and because of the expansion of resort and rental cabins, chalets, condos, and vacation homes to provide for visitors to the area. The communities of the area offer abundant attractions for visitors - whether for tourism, business, or meetings and conventions. The region offers a family oriented atmosphere with all kinds of recreational activities: trout & bass fishing, whitewater rafting, golf, miniture golf, horseback riding, hiking, tubing, and numerous campgrounds.

Gatlinburg
Gatlinburg businesses include some 50 outstanding restaurants and over 400 specialty shops, and the nation's largest community of independent artisans located on an 8.5 mile loop along Glades and Buckhorn Roads in Gatlinburg. Hiking, whitewater rafting, trout fishing, camping, or horseback riding are other common activities.

Attractions in Gatlinburg, Tennessee include Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, a 1.4 million gallon world-class aquarium featuring live sharks and over 8,000 exotic sea creatures from around the world.

Ober Gatlinburg Ski Resort features a 120 passenger Aerial Tramway to the top of the mountain. Activities include Water Rides, Alpine Slide, Indoor Ice Skating, visiting the Black Bear Habitat, Winter Skiing and Snowboarding. The 342-foot tall Space Needle with its’ observation deck overlooks downtown Gatlinburg, Tennessee.

Pigeon Forge
Pigeon Forge is home to music, shows and action, making Pigeon Forge a popular family vacation attraction. The city's theaters present all styles of music, high-energy dancing and magical illusions. Acts include amazing horsemanship with Dixie Stampede, daring Chinese acrobats at Great China Acrobats, side-slapping country comedy at the Ole Smoky Hoedown, a celebration of America, gospel music and an Elvis impersonator.

On a Pigeon Forge family vacation most people visit Dollywood, one of the South's favorite entertainment parks filled with music, rides, mountain craft demonstrations and other attractions that showcase life in the Smoky Mountains.

There are more than 40 attractions that are located along the city's Parkway. They include miniature golf, go-carts, bumper boats, water rides, laser games and an indoor skydiving simulator. Pigeon Forge also hosts a variety of outlet stores in an outlet mall.

There is a wide selection of pottery, handmade quilts and other arts and crafts at dozens of specialty stores. Pigeon Forge is also home to Bell Tower Square, the South's largest year-round Christmas village.

Sevierville

Sevierville is a historic city that is rapidly developing into a commercial, convention, recreation, and shopping center for the area. It is home to the minor league Tennessee Smokies baseball team and to a new Sevierville Events Center that will host regional and national conventions & meetings.

Sevierville was established in 1795, the year after the formation of Sevier County - both of which are named after John Sevier, first Governor of the State of Tennessee. The current court house, a historic landmark, was completed in 1895 - and is the fifth court house serving Sevier County.

Dumplin Creek, under development, will include over 800,000 square feet of retail space plus 400,000 square feet for entertainment and hospitality venues. There is a Bass Pro Shop and The Shops at Bridgemont is under construction.

Eagles Landing Golf Course is currently being expanded from 18 to 36 holes. Sevierville also offers many other recreational and sight-seeing attractions including helicopter rides over the area.

The Sevierville Events Center opened in 2007 and is a key element in transforming Sevierville into a destination center for meetings and conventions.

Wears Valley
Wears Valley lies in the majestic hills of the beautiful Smoky Mountains bordering the Great Smoky Mountains National Park six miles from Pigeon Forge. Wears Valley is known as one of the most beautiful and picturesque valleys you will find anywhere in the United States. Wears Valley offers the serenity and seclusion of the mountains but the convenience of being close to all the action of Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg.

Close by are hiking trails, mountain streams and waterfalls, wildlife viewing, whitewater rafting, tubing, and other outdoor adventures provided by the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Metcalf Bottoms, Elkmont and the Cades Cove areas of the Smokies are just minutes away from Wears Valley.

Townsend
Adjacent to the Cades Cove and Little River region of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park is the quiet village of Townsend, Tennessee. Known as "The Peaceful Side of the Smokies", the Townsend area with its abundance of accommodations, craft shops, seasonal festivals, and abundant outdoor activities, provides an ideal place to live or to retire.

Townsend is close to one of our nation's most visited natural areas, historic Cades Cove which includes an "open air museum" of pioneer life in the nineteenth century.

Since the land was purchased for the national park Cades Cove has preserved history as one of nature's most tranquil, serene and breathtaking attractions.

The park has preserved dozens of pioneer structures in Cades Cove depicting settlers' lives.