Smoky Mountain Guide

November 1, 2026

Winterfest Lights And Events In The Smokies 2026

A Halloween post on chili and Winterfest lights when it’s still in the mid-70s? Yep, that’s the Smoky Mountains about this time of the year for you! Don’t let the holiday mood whiplash distract you from all the fun you can have, you definitely should already be planning to visit Pigeon Forge […]
October 12, 2026

Gatlinburg Craftsmens Fair For Fall 2026

The Gatlinburg Craftsmens Fair is a long-standing tradition and showcase for our famous Smoky Mountain artists and artisans of the region and their Fall show is already underway for October 2026. Take a look at what their official website writes for the event below:   “October 8-28, 2026 Join us Daily, 10 […]
October 4, 2026

Wears Valley Fall Festival 2026

Event time: October 16-18, 2026 We have a lot of Fall festivals in East Tennessee. A lot. It would be weird if we didn’t celebrate the Autumn season to the nth degree with all the season brings us as far as joy and aesthetics so powerful they could be seen from space. […]
September 8, 2026

Get The Autumn Spirit In East Tennessee! September-October 2026 Events

It’s still Summer for a couple more weeks, but nobody cares about that. Once the calendar turns on the 9th month of the year (or sometimes even earlier), that’s basically as good as Autumn. After a particularly rainy and hot Summer (yes, hot and rainy at the same time!) guests are looking […]
August 23, 2026

Oktoberfest Festivals In East Tennessee For 2026

I don’t need to tell you fans of Oktoberfests that Oktoberfest is coming up, you already know it. You can feel it in the air. You can smell the pretzels baking, the beer brewing and the schnitzel schnitzling. The fact that it’s called “Oktoberfest” and you know how to read a calendar […]
July 31, 2026

Upcoming Car And Truck Shows In The Smokies – August and September 2026

We used to have a pretty well carved-out schedule of when the big car shows would come to become the big events of the county, but over the last few years some major changes have come to shape up late Summer to be the de-facto “car show season” for Pigeon Forge and […]
June 17, 2026

Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Summer Celebration

It’s that time of the year again! Dollywood recently entered a new season of their Summer festival “Smoky Mountain Summer Celebration” for visitors bringing families to our wonderful side of the state and we’ve got their information to share below. Dollywood’s Smoky Mountain Summer Celebration is going on now until August 2nd […]
June 14, 2026

Coffee Shops In The Smokies

As business continues to build in the Tennessee Smokies, one industry we’re seeing making a quiet boom over the last couple of years are small-to-medium-sized coffee shops in towns, along the roadways, on the way to places and anywhere in-between! Obviously, the Tennessee Smokies has had coffee shops a’plenty in our generations […]
June 14, 2026

Outdoor Sports Fun In Gatlinburg

We felt a selection of some of the less-obvious outdoor sports fun opportunities in and near Gatlinburg was worth writing up in a blog. No real theme connects them other than they’re outdoor, you can do them with a group, family or by yourself, and we think they’d be great ideas to […]