If your impression of Gatlinburg, Tennessee is that it’s just a tourist trap filled with gift shops and bumper cars, we’re here to disabuse you. Gatlinburg has a real history of hospitality. As a primary gateway to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Gatlinburg is the perfect staging point for exploration of that national treasure. Gatlinburg is a multi-generational destination.

Take a trip to the Alps without getting on a plane, Take a short drive up to The Greenbrier, a lovely restaurant perched on the ridge above downtown that was a hunting camp until the 1920s. travel through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. 

Ripley’s Aquarium of the Smokies, one of the favorite aquariums in America, features multiple huge tanks filled with freshwater and ocean fish, plus the ever-popular penguins.