2019 Pigeon Forge Travel Guide 2019 Pigeon Forge Travel Guide | Page 8

8 TRAVELer WHAT KIND OF TRAVELER ARE YOU? Find your type and find what you love in Pigeon Forge. Outdoor Lover Pigeon Forge is just a stones-throw from Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and America’s most visited national park is filled with adventures that will attract any outdoor lover. There are more than 800 miles of hiking trails, for quiet strolls or hearty hikes. Wildlife watchers can see black bear, white-tailed deer, turkeys and more. The park contains more than 1,500 kinds of flowering plants, more than any other American History Buffs national park. Get a glimpse of the past along the Make history in Pigeon Forge, where you’ll find that Cades Cove loop, where you’ll see churches, log history is not only educational but a whole lot of fun. homes, a gristmill, barns and other 18th and 19th Learn world history at Titanic Museum Attraction. Delve century structures. A short walk to Clingmans Dome into criminal history at Alcatraz East Crime Museum. will reveal spectacular views in every season. Learn how America’s pioneers lived at Cades Cove in Action and Adventure Heroes Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Many areas of Dollywood reflect the area’s Appalachian history, and If action and adventure are what you seek, look you can tour one of the town’s first businesses at the no farther than Pigeon Forge. With more than 70 Old Mill. Meet movie and television stars from show attractions, your choices are seemingly endless. Go- business history at Hollywood Wax Museum and enjoy carts, indoor skydiving, whitewater rafting, indoor snow music that spans several generations at the Pigeon tubing, zip-lines, mini-golf, Alpine mountain coasters, Forge theaters. laser tag, bumper boats and so much more. Test your skills at metal craft and test your knowledge at skill- based escape games. Ride a horse down a mountain trail or ride up on a 200-foot-tall observation wheel. Enjoy the thrill of award-winning coasters at Dollywood and experience the drop of a 70-foot-tall waterslide at Dollywood’s Splash Country.