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Guide to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park

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  • Fightin' Creek Gap 52.8 Sevierville 71.5 Observation Point 53.1 (Intersection #71 and Intersection #73 and #71. 56.0 #35) (From here to New- Tenn. #.^> found Gap it is 14.5 Boyd's Creek 81.5 miles. Turn right on Seymour 84.5 #71 to Gap) Burnett 89.0 '™»- #71 Shooks 92.5 Gatlinburg 58.5 Knoxville 100.0 Pigeon Forge 65.0 TOUR NUMBER THREE: This tour, of exactly 100 miles, is knowille's famous loop trip by way of Maryville, Little River Gorge, Gatlinburg, and Sevierville. It offers the advantages of beautiful scenery and a comparatively short, easy trip over hardsurfaced roads. I he tour begins at Knoxville and goes by Rockford to Maryville over Highway No. 33. From Maryville it follows No. 73 through the Little River Gorge and then to Gatlinburg, Before reaching Gatlinburg, if so desired, a side-trip niaV be made to Newfound Gap, a distance of 14.5 miles from the intersection of Highway Nos. 73 and 71. Gatlinburg, where the temporary offices of the superintendent of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park allocated, is at the foot of Mt. LeConte, one of the most spectacular peaks in the Great Smokies. Mt. LeConte rise.- more than a mile above Gatlinburg and is the "tallest" mountain above its immediate base in the entire Appalachian system. Gatlinburg caters especially to park visitors and has accommodations for those who wish to hike, ride horseback, or fish in the trout streams of the Great Smokies. Here, too, •ire gilt shops selling mountain crafts and Indian curios, and •l museum exhibiting a typical mountain settler's cabin with :i,tual, hundred-year-old equipment. There are shown, also. Indian ceremonial dress, war relics, and other interesting displays. From Gatlinburg the trip continues on No. 71 to Pigeon Forge and Sevierville. then on No. 35 back to Knoxville. ' 27
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