Depends on what you want out of your trip.

Townsend on the backside is nice. Cherokee (and has gambling) is nice Any small valley town in the range is going to be fine.

But when I go, I tend to just go for the views and like one day in actual Gatlinburg. I’m from e.tn so the tourist stuff is oldhat for me.

So I’ll go get a cabin in the deep dark woods and just be “off grid” for a bit. But that’s not what everyone does. There’s a lot there to do that’s not spend your money playing games / on trinkets.

Man… I’m in east Tennessee.

Folks just roll up to look at the leaves… and I’m like.

Eh. Not much rain this year so they are pretty drab looking currently…

But you still see tons of people taking photos on their phones that they’ll never look at again. Haha

Thanks! Doing this tomorrow