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Sights of Smoky Mountains, Real Local History

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6 hours
Mobile ticket
Offered in: English

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Overview

The Smoky Mountains are known for their beautiful nature, but the history and culture of the area also run deep. Learn about the founders of Gatlinburg, the old mill at Pigeon Forge, and head up the mountain to Rockefeller Memorial. Then, enjoy having your 1-hour lunch break in Wears Valley at Elvira's Cafe, and more on this fully narrated day-long tour from Pigeon Forge.

Fully narrated tour provides insight into local culture and history
Visit main attractions in the region, including Pigeon Forge, Gatlinburg and Foothills Parkway West
Ideal overview of the area for first-time visitors
Enjoy having a 1-hour lunch break in Wears Valley at Elvira's Cafe

What's Included

Driver/guide
Local guide
Headsets to hear the guide clearly
Stories and Information

Gratuities
Lunch

Meeting and Pickup

Meeting point

220 Apple Valley Rd, Sevierville, TN 37862, USA
Please check in with the tour driver at the meeting point. The driver will be parked in front of the Apple Barn Creamery in a van or bus. We do not have an office, you just need to check in with your driver when you arrive. If you have any issues finding the vehicle please communicate with us.

Start time

09:00 AM

End point

This activity ends back at the meeting point.

What To Expect

Make your own way to the Shops of Pigeon Forge for a morning departure time. Meet your guide and your group, and then board a bus for your full-day sightseeing tour of the Gatlinburg area.

Begin your tour with a trip to the city of Gatlinburg itself. Discover the Townsend area, drive down Foothills Parkway West, and then head up the mountain to the Rockefeller Memorial.

Then, continue to Wear Valley to learn about the area's history and enjoy lunch at a local cafe (included).

Next, head to the city of Pigeon Forge, known for its fully-operating 1830s grain mill. Your guide will provide informative commentary about the area’s culture and history throughout the tour.

Return to the Shops of Pigeon Forge at the end of the tour.

Great Smoky Mountains National Park

3 hours • Admission Ticket Free

Elkmont Ghost Town

30 minutes • Admission Ticket Free

Townsend

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Foothills Parkway

1 hour • Admission Ticket Free

Additional Info

Confirmation will be received at time of booking
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Not wheelchair accessible
Service animals allowed
Near public transportation

Infants must sit on laps
Most travelers can participate
Child tickets MUST order from the child menu at lunch. No exceptions
Infant tickets DO NOT include a meal and must share with parents
This tour/activity will have a maximum of 12 travelers

Cancellation Policy

You can cancel up to 24 hours in advance of the experience for a full refund.

For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.
This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Reviews

4.5

54 reviews

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A nice day !!

nabby, Oct 2023

Overall was a nice day , some great spots we stopped at. Lunch was very good. Justin are guide was very informative with the history of the Tennessee Smokies.

Amazing!

Rodolfo_C, Sep 2023

Experience and lunch was amazing! Our driver Mr Dustin had a lots of knowledge of the tour and help to explain and answer any questions that we might have had. If anyone would like to see and get a good experience of the Smoky Mountains this is the trip we would recommend. Amazing!!!

Great Tour!

Mark_K, Aug 2023

Great tour guide had lot of info about the area. Made accommodations for limited mobility. Saw a lot of the area.

Great times wood good friends!!

Brian_S, Aug 2023

Pam, was great!!! Really catered to the group, and very informative!! Lunch was awesome and VERY worth the cost of the trip!!

Amazing!

SUBHRATA_S, Aug 2023

We had an excellent tour guide/driver - Pam. She was wonderful and gave us an amazing tour!! Money well spent!

Amazing Tour!!

Gail_H, Aug 2023

Pam was our guide and she was amazing. I have been to the Smokies multiple times. She showed us so much more. It was a great tour.

Beautiful views, nice history lessons.

Marty_R, Jul 2023

The views were lovely. Elvira’s was delicious. Our guide was well steeped in the history of the surrounding area. It was a little slow for an 11-year-old, but we got to see a lot of things we would not have known about otherwise.

A good tour but not what was advertised

Kay_A, Jun 2021

This was a really nice tour and a good time, however it was not a full day and didn't include lunch as advertised.

Good choice

Kim_M, Jun 2021

The staff was excellent, friendly, informative and made you feel very relaxed! Would definitely use them again!

Response from Host, Jun 2021

Thanks for joining us on tour. It was a pleasure having you and I hope you come see us again next time you are in town 😀.

Tour

jwhitaker43, Sep 2019

Very nice tour and lunch was very good I would recommend this tour for anyone no matter what age they will surely enjoy it our guide Dereck was wonderful

Smoky Mountain Tour was wonderful

Cmay303, Aug 2019

If you are ever in Pigeon Forge and have a free day, you won’t want to miss this tour. Our tour guide was wonderful, humorous and very informative with the history, the culture, the geography, politics and folklore as well. I really can’t say enough about the day trip with him. The van that we traveled in was excellent and lithe restaurant was a fun place that was not just a name brand, but a local eatery. He stopped often for photos and views of the magnificent Appalachian Mountains as well. A great tour and lots of fun for any age!

Dustin was a great tour guide, and...

Judith M, Jun 2018

Dustin was a great tour guide, and brought Pam along for the ride, who we had toured with the day before to Cade's Cove. We were with another couple our friends, and once again were the only tourists on the van. It was a great day - not rushed seeing and learning about the town of Gatlinburg stopping for great sights, shopping and lunch and seeing the amazingly beautiful Smokies. Learning about the mountains, the establishment of the national park and the people of the area was a wonderful way to spend the day. A must!

Absolutely great tour. Fascinating...

Melodie W, Nov 2017

Absolutely great tour. Fascinating info about the Smokies and people of the Smokies. We want to come back for more tours. Thanks for the good lunch and great day.

The driver was 15-minutes late. He...

Brenda M, Oct 2017

The driver was 15-minutes late. He said he had been waiting in line for gas. Our first stop was for lunch around 10:45 AM at a restaurant out on some highway. It had only been a couple of hours since my husband and I had finished breakfast so he and I sat on the porch waiting another 45-minutes or so to take the tour. From the restaurant we were taken to a coffee shop. This took another half-hour for everyone to get off, order a drink, and then return to the van. Then we left for a tour of an old train depot that wasnt even open on that day so we were only allowed to walk around the grounds and look at what was outside. Then we went to an old part of town to a shopping area and wasted a lot more time. When we finally got on the tour it consisted of him pointing sites out and telling us a little about them and then informing us it would be worth coming back to visit if we had a vehicle And, most of the time in the van was spent listening to his stories about growing up in those parts. He was a very nice man, but I was interested in learning about the area and seeing sites I might ordinarily miss on my own but that did not happen. This was the worse tour I had ever been on and it cost 100 for each of the two of us. We both felt like we were taken advantage of.

Response from Host, Nov 2022

Getting fuel is important, we don't want to run out while on tour. Everyday consists of a safety check, walk around, refueling, and cleaning. Sometimes there can be slight delays but that is very very rare. More often than not I am waiting on passengers who are running late but I never complain because I understand things happen. We didn't just stop at "some restaurant on some highway" we stopped at Elvira's, one of the best reviewed local restaurants in the Smoky Mountains. People can wait upwards of 45 minutes just to get a seat to dine there but our passengers rarely have to wait more than a couple minutes when we visit. Lunch is included on the tour and if you opted to miss out and sit on the porch there's little I can do about that. We generally stop for lunch at 12 noon though, the route won't even allow us to be there at 10:30. We go from Pigeon Forge through Gatlinburg up to the top of the mountain and back down past Elkmont through Metcalf bottoms into Wears Valley. That takes about 4 hours if you include the 30 min stop at the top of the mountain. The stories I tell on my tours are those passed down to me from 7 generations of family who have lived in the Smoky Mountains, im sorry if they were not to your liking. If you just came to see sights and didn't want to learn about the history then I recommend putting that money into gas for your own vehicle and doing a self guided tour. The park is the park, it doesn't change very fast, there are no hidden areas that I know that aren't listed for you to see on your own. What I add is knowledge about that area and the people who lived there. Having lived in this area my entire life and having family who's been here since 1803 I know more than most about the history of the area before and after the park was established. We drive over 200 miles on this tour and you only pointed out the bathroom stops and the lunch you refused. This is a bus tour, we do not stop at every area we pass because it would be a 2-3 day tour rather than a 6 hour tour. Most people already think 6 hours is a long time to be on a tour as it is. I'm sorry you were disappointed but I'll keep telling my stories and enjoying lunch at Elvira's.

Worst trip ever. Junk old van dirty...

Warren C, Sep 2017

Worst trip ever. Junk old van dirty windows and an unprofessional tour director who stopped at every small local mountain shop. Complete rip off.

Response from Host, Nov 2022

You were on a boat in the Gulf of Mexico when I called you asking if you planned on coming to the tour you booked. Turned out you booked the wrong date so I gladly moved you to the correct date at no charge. I guess that turned out to be a bad idea since you didn't like our bus or anything about the tour. Funny thing is you never mentioned any of this while on tour, you were quite friendly and talkative and asked a lot of questions which I gladly answered. You made no indication of having a poor time on the trip at all. Right up until I read this review I thought you had a wonderful time, you even tipped me well which is not typical of someone who had a bad time. You will be happy to know we cleaned the windows and upgraded the bus. We aren't a big company so we can't replace our busses every year but we do try to make sure all passengers are comfortable and safe in our vehicles. Next time you book a tour double check that you booked the correct date not everyone is kind enough to move you.

A must take tour. Our tour guide was...

LuAnn D, Aug 2017

A must take tour. Our tour guide was Dustin and he knows all this history of the area.

We really enjoyed our tour. Our...

Carla R, May 2017

We really enjoyed our tour. Our tour guide was so knowledgeable about the history of the Pigeon Forge/Gatlinburg area. He was a local resident, a 7th generation member of his family from the area, and was able to pass on so much information. We saw a mama bear and her two cubs in the woods, in addition waterfalls, streams and beautiful scenery. We shopped at several local businesses, including a pottery store where we sat and watched an employee spinning vases. It was mesmerizing to watch, we could have sat there for hours. The tour was a lot of fun. We learned a lot and we would highly recommend it.

Really nice day. Dustin was great. A...

Laura L, May 2017

Really nice day. Dustin was great. A nice way to see the National Park. Lunch was great too. We stopped at Elvira's. Some light hiking trails are optional which was really fun too.

Everything began as it should we...

RoeB_L, May 2017

Everything began as it should we arrived at the visitor center early and so did Dustin the tour guide, after all the other guest arrived we started on our trip. We then started our tour through the Smokies and just before the first stop we noticed high wind and limbs falling into road, we stopped at first stop and was enjoying the beautiful scenery of mountain stream and lush vegetation. About two miles after the first stop we saw a park ranger with help pulling a small tree from road we then proceeded on our way and then saw a much larger tree in road, in just a few minutes the same ranger came up behind us and told us we had to get out of the park pronto. Dustin then had to back the bus at least a mile to find room to turn around. All roads into the smokies were closed and Dustin had to come up with plan B. He backtracked and did the latter part of the plan and then showed us Buffalo, art district etc., being a local he knew every pig path in the area so we had a marvelous trip, I know the original trip would have been great but we had an adventure not a tour. You will be in the most capable of hands with Dustin and he is a great communicator. Best tour I have ever been on and if not in capable hands would have been a disaster.

Good Tour! Destin was our driver and...

Patty W, Apr 2017

Good Tour! Destin was our driver and tour guide. He does a good job and he picked a local restaurant we could eat at that had excellent food for lunch! I would recommend this tour for anyone wanted to know the history of the Smoky Mountains.

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