The Belle Island sale has finally gone through. Last week, LeConte Village LLC paid $10 million for the property in Pigeon Forge. Darby Campbell, a Knoxville-based developer, is one of the new owners. He said that his group plans to demolish the steamboat building, which was once expected to house the Hollywood memorabilia collection of [...]
Pigeon Forge Area Gets New TV Station
November 27, 2011 By Leave a Comment
According to the Knoxville News, a new TV station will begin serving Pigeon Forge and the surrounding area soon. The new station, WJDP-TV11 will be a full broadcast TV station. It is owned by the Dash family and will be part of the New Beginning TV Network family. The Dash family has been operating TV [...]
Kid Testers Review of The Track in Pigeon Forge
November 21, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Trust me. If you’ve driven down the Parkway in Pigeon Forge, your kids have noticed The Track’s signature go-cart track, the Wild Woody. It’s a three-story spiraling wooden track. And it looks like so much fun. That’s why we jumped at the chance when The Track asked our Kid Testers to come visit. Kid Tester [...]
Dollywood’s Christmas Shows for 2011
November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Here’s Dollywood’s 2011 lineup of shows, according to CyberGrass: Dollywood’s Christmas on Ice: Performed by the Ice Theater of New York Christmas in the Smokies: Dollywood’s musical Christmas tradition features a 12-member cast and seven-piece band performing hometown holiday favorites that celebrate the joy of the season. Appalachian Christmas: Celebrate an acoustic Christmas at the [...]
Christmas Events in the Smokies
November 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Oh, I love the holidays! And they are upon us! In fact, this post is probably overdue. But here it is, so you can plan. Gatlinburg holiday events Gatlinburg Winter Magic Dates: Now through February 28 What: The lights are on every evening during the wintertime in Gatlinburg! Gatlinburg has converted its entire winter lights [...]
Review: J.T. Hannah’s in Pigeon Forge
November 2, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The smell was what killed us. We were planning a horseback riding trip, but had some time to kill. We were hungry. We were driving the Parkway in Pigeon Forge and noticed a new restaurant we hadn’t seen before — J.T. Hannah’s. And the smell … ummm … like hamburgers and ribs. Yep, we stopped. [...]
Ground Broken on Pigeon Forge Event Center
October 31, 2011 By 1 Comment
According to The Knoxville News, construction started on Thursday for the LeConte Center, a 232,000-square-foot multipurpose facility in Pigeon Forge. It is scheduled to open in late summer of 2013. The LeConte Center will feature a 100,000-square-foot exhibit hall and a 12,000-square-foot multipurpose hall. It will also have several multipurpose meeting rooms, a catering kitchen, [...]
The Lumberjack Feud – a Hit with the Kids!
October 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
I have to tell you — our kids REALLY enjoyed the Lumberjack Feud dinner show in Pigeon Forge. I think they’d both tell you it was the best thing they did this trip to the Smokies. It beat horseback riding and go-carting. And that’s saying something. The Lumberjack Feud show opened in September in Pigeon [...]
Black Bear Activity Up in Pigeon Forge
October 19, 2011 By 1 Comment
If you’re heading to the Smoky Mountains for the beautiful fall leaf season, keep your eyes open for black bears. More are showing their faces this year than usual. According to WATE, more black bears have been sighted in Pigeon Forge than in several years. Most of the sightings have been in residential areas, but [...]
Popular Dollywood Show Ends Run
October 18, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Sha-Kon-O-Hey! Land of the Blue Smoke, one of the most popular and elaborate stage shows in Dollywood history, will end on Wednesday. Fans of the million-dollar productions aren’t happy with the decision, and they are letting it be known through social media and an email campaign. But a Dollywood spokesperson said that the Celebrity Theater [...]
