Places to go in Tennessee.

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Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Gatlinburg, TN · Great Smoky Mountains$

About 1,900 black bears live in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, on the Tennessee and North Carolina line, roughly two for every square mile. Getting within 50 yards of one…

Mountains

Cades Cove

Townsend, TN · Great Smoky Mountains$

An 11-mile one-way road loops through Cades Cove, a valley closed in by mountains on every side, south of Townsend, Tennessee. First on the loop is John Oliver's cabin, built in…

Mountains

Clingmans Dome

Gatlinburg, TN · Great Smoky Mountains$

At 6,643 feet, this is the highest point in Tennessee and in all of the Great Smoky Mountains, and the half-mile paved climb from the parking lot earns you a 360-degree sweep…

Caves

Ruby Falls

Chattanooga, TN · Lookout Mountain$$

Ride a glass-front elevator 26 stories down inside Lookout Mountain, then follow a winding passage past stalactites, columns, and rippled flowstone to the payoff: a 145-foot…

Caves

Cumberland Caverns

McMinnville, TN · Cumberland Plateau$$

Aaron Higgenbotham found this cave six miles southeast of McMinnville, Tennessee, in 1810, and spent three days stuck on a ledge inside after his torch went out. The 90-minute…

Lakes & rivers

Fall Creek Falls

Spencer, TN · Cumberland Plateau, Middle TennesseeFree

Near Spencer, Tennessee, Fall Creek leaves the plateau and falls 256 feet into a pool at the bottom of its gorge. A short trail goes down from the parking lot to the base, and…