Whether you’re single or taken, love Valentine’s Day or hate it, it’s a winter holiday that has the tendency to sneak up on you. At least, it certainly feels like it snuck up on me this year — but maybe that’s because we experienced a year’s worth of extreme weather in one week. It’s enough […]
Ready to shake up your vacation? Want to add a little spice to your day? That’s right, we’re talking about Gatlinburg’s Salt and Pepper Shaker Museum, one of only a handful of salt and pepper shaker galleries in the country, featuring a collection of over 20,000 shaker sets and 1,500 pepper mills from around the […]
In some places, history lives in the great cities. It lives in the magnificent achievements of man, great cathedrals, towering skyscrapers, engineering marvels like pyramids and aqueducts. In the Great Smoky Mountains, history is in the hollers, in the lingering crannies found in the shadow of giant mountain ridges. History resides near where desperate people […]
Treat your valentine with a trip to one of Tennessee’s most acclaimed upscale steakhouses. Delicious food, unique ambiance and its location make this the “go to” place for romance. The Peddler building began in a cabin built by the Ogles, a legendary East Tennessee family whose name is attached to many meaningful locations in and […]
It takes a certain kind of attitude to stand atop a mountain, looking out over one of the true visual wonders of the world and think, “You know what this needs? More height.” The folks at Anakeesta are that kind of innovative thinkers. So they begin the 2020 season with a $6 million expansion that […]
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