Bluegrass Christmas in the Smokies

Going on right now is another Christmastime festival favorite at the Smoky Mountain Convention Center until December the 12th.

For those who enjoy the rich wealth of quality Southern music (as if there was any other kind!) Pigeon Forge plays throughout the year at some of our other festivals like the southern Harvest and Bluegrass Festival at Dollywood or the National Quartet Convention, this event is an awesome bridge between that excellent pastime and the holiday season. The location is set directly in downtown Pigeon Forge, excellently convenient from pretty much anywhere you stay in the Smokies, and offers copious parking space along with trolley access.

Artists for this year include:
* Eddy Raven
* Lorraine Jordan & Carolina Road
* Marty Raybon & Full Circle
* Doyle Lawson & Quicksilver
* James King Band
* Goldwing Express
and many more.

See more information on this event at http://bluegrasschristmasinsmokies.com/.

Give Thanks Dinner

From the Wears Valley Area Chamber news page:

Give Thanks Dinner

Proceeds benefit:
Mountain Hope Good Shepherd Clinic

November 24, 2015 4:30-7:00 pm
Cove Creek RV Resort

$10 for a traditional Thanksgiving Meal OR
to provide for a needy family in the community;
Silent Auction
Call for reservations: 865-428-1315

DJ Jeff from Side-by-Side Entertainment!

Also... Community Tree Lighting &
Kick-Off of Christmas In Wears Valley

November 24, 2015 7:15 pm
Cove Creek RV Resort

Sponsors: Thank you!!!
Great Smoky Mountain Outfitters
SmokiesCabin.com
Moose Creek Crossing Cabin Rentals
Wright Stuff Catering & Wright Cheek BBQ Team
Smokey Mountain Wedding & Party Barn
Mountain Realty Group
William Knight Insurance
Integrity Pest Control
Bush Builders

Community Tree Ornament Participants: Thank you!!!
Moose Creek Crossing Cabin Rentals
Wright Stuff Catering
Wright Cheek BBQ
Pat & Steve Wright
Cove Creek RV Resort
Great Smoky Mountain Outfitters
Church of Restoration
Tom Lolio Property Management
Wears Valley Armorer
Mountain Realty Group
Smoky Mountain Wedding & Party Barn
Wears Valley United Methodist Church

If you are interested in participating in the Community Tree Ornament program, please contact Alicia White at Smokey Mountain Wedding & Party Barn

Silent Auction Donors: Thank you!!!
Wright Stuff Catering
Smokey Mountain Wedding & Party Barn
Cove Creek RV Resort
Personalized Etchings
Magi Quest
Jim Easton Photography
Side-by-Side Entertainment
Great Smoky Mountain Outfitters
Tom Lolio Property Management
Wears Valley Armorer
Mountain Realty Group
Jean Shamblin
Sky High Air Tours
Ripley’s Attractions
TN State Bank
SmartBank

See more on this at www.wearsvalleyareachamber.com/news.html

Winterfest Kickoff in Pigeon Forge 2015

Next week, the city of Pigeon Forge will celebrate the upcoming Winterfest season with an event at the Old Mill in the center of downtown Pigeon Forge.

on November 10th, Pigeon Forge will be bringing Christmas and holiday spirit to Patriot Park right next to the Old Mill Square complex. This is a free event that all are invited to intend starting at 4:00PM. There will be live music entertainment featuring the Pigeon Forge Community Chorus, Boogertown Gap, Hills-N-Hollows and Lost Mill String Band, a children's games area, and then once the sun goes down and the million-dollar lighting displays go on. Pigeon Forge will also offer complimentary Trolley Tour of Lights for visitors who attend! See more on this event at www.mypigeonforge.com/events/winterfest/.

The Old Mill is only about 20-25 minutes from our cabins in Wears Valley and the drive to and from should be quite easy for visitors staying with us in the Smokies. See our available cabins at www.covemountain.com.

Only One Week And a Half of Harvest Festival Activities Left!

Do you have any plans to visit the Smokies for the Fall festivities yet? No? Good gracious man, get on it! We've only got a few more days for the Harvest Festival season and the colors are finally coming into their prime, and there's quite a bit to see and do before then. You won't want to miss any of it.

Here's what we're looking at before the start of Winterfest.

* Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair *
Now - 10/25/15
http://www.gatlinburg.com/events/details.aspx?id=10

* Halloween Trick or Treat
10/29/15
http://www.mypigeonforge.com/events/halloween-trick-or-treat/

* Dollywood National Southern Gospel and Harvest Celebration *
Now - 10/31/15
http://www.dollywood.com

Trick or Treat Kick Off Karnival
10/31/15
http://www.gatlinburg.com/events/details.aspx?id=54

* Halloween in the Hills
10/30/15 - 11/1/15
http://www.mypigeonforge.com/events/halloween-in-the-hills/

* Shocktober
Now - 11/1/15
http://www.gatlinburg.com/events/details.aspx?id=191

* Oktoberfest at Ober Gatlinburg *
Now - 11/1/15
http://www.gatlinburg.com/events/details.aspx?id=80

And Cove Mountain would like to be your home away from home no matter what your vacation plans may be. We're only 30 minutes at most from pretty much all the activities in town, and you can see our reservations and openings at www.covemountain.com. Come in and join the Halloween season fun!

Upcoming Events for Autumn 2015

We don't want cry wolf, but it's been confirmed that the color change has already started in Pigeon Forge and we could see the full Autumn Bloom as early as two weeks ahead of schedule. Visitors hoping to get a colorful Autumn trip to the Smokies might need to make arrangements to come sooner than later.

Luckily there will be plenty of special events waiting for you should you come within the next few weeks. Just a sampling of the festivities going on in town around then include:

Pigeon Forge:
10th Annual Old Mill Heritage Day (September 26, 2015)
http://www.mypigeonforge.com/events/old-mill-heritage-day/

Rotary Club Craft Fair (September 26, 2015)
http://www.mypigeonforge.com/events/pigeon-forge-rotary-club-craft-fair/

National Quartet Convention (September 27, 2015)
http://www.mypigeonforge.com/events/national-quartet-convention/

Dollywood's National Southern Gospel and Harvest Celebration (October 2-October 31, 2015)
http://www.mypigeonforge.com/events/national-southern-gospel-harvest-celebration/

Gatlinburg:
Fast Cars 'n' Mason Jars (September 26-28, 2013)
http://www.gatlinburg.com/events/details.aspx?id=123

Oktoberfest at Ober Gatlinburg (September 25-November 1, 2015)
http://www.gatlinburg.com/events/details.aspx?id=80

Gatlinburg Craftsmen's Fair (October 8-25, 2013)
http://www.gatlinburg.com/events/details.aspx?id=10

If this looks good to you, come out and spend the Autumn season with us at Cove Mountain! Close to Pigeon Forge and Townsend without much of the traffic and two camera memory cards worth of views guaranteed! www.covemountain.com.

Tax Free Weekend and Celebrate Freedom August 2015

Whoever said August would be a slow month because of the "Summer blues" had not seen the event schedule for August 2014 in Pigeon Forge! This weekend alone sees the start of Celebrate Freedom and the Sales-Tax Free weekend, and there's a nice-sized list of even more events coming up that you can see below:
8/1/15
Stringtime in the Smokies

8/4/15-8/14/15
Back Porch Concert Series at Sugarlands Cellars

8/7/15-8/9/15
Tax Free Weekend

8/19/15-8/23/15
Smoky Mountain Songwriters Festival

8/29/15
Welcome Home Vietnam Parade

Stay tuned with us for September when we have the rod runs and the Autumn season starting. www.allthesmokies.com.

Come out to the Smokies for one last Summer getaway with the family, even if school HAS started again, and choose one of our cabins at www.covemountain.com to get the school year started on a good foot!

Fourth of July Events in Pigeon Forge For 2015

It's that time of the year everyone looks forward to from the start of June to the 4th of July and we want to invite you out to Wears Valley and Pigeon Forge to spend it with us in the Smokies!

Pigeon Forge is where you want to be for that magical day and Patriot Park is where all the action is going on. The entire park becomes a family picnic and fun park. Inflatable attractions for the young'uns, food tents, cooling down stations, and the entire Old Mill complex to enjoy. There is a huge soundstage erected at the North end of the park where there will be entertainment and music almost nonstop throughout the day culminating with a performance from headlining act Diamond Rio.

Then, between 9:30-9:45PM, the big show will start. For more than 15 minutes, the fireworks will explode over the park in an amazingly colorful display you'll remember for years. Well worth the visit to the Smokies to enjoy!

Come stay with us at Cove Mountain and you'll only be between 15-20 minutes from the action in Pigeon Forge. Enjoy a full day of fun out and about and then come back to a luxury home-away-from-home to rest those aching feet in our hot tubs, enjoy our swimming pool or anything else you can imagine in a luxury home.

See our website at www.covemountainresort.com for all our cabins. We hope to see you soon!

One More Chance For a Smoky Mountain Springtime Getaway!

We've got some Springtime left before the big Summer push in tourism, and this is sort of the "quiet before the storm". It's a bit slow in the area right now (for late Spring anyway) but that will change as Graduation season and school lets out. If you want to get in one more relaxing trip to the Smokies before the traffic gets hot, this is the time to do it.

Aleska
Hidden At Heart
Southern Exposure
Rhody Cottage
Run To The Hills
Four Seasons Gardens
Foxfire
Great Escape
Hill of a View
Bella Vista
Dawseys Dream

See more on our cabins at www.covemountain.com.

Dollys Homecoming Parade and Sevier County Days 2015

Looking for some affordable entertainment in the Smokies to enjoy with the family? Come out this weekend where we have two events going on in Pigeon Forge and Gatlinburg.

The first one is next Friday, May 1st, where Pigeon Forge will be holding the annual Dolly Homecoming Parade between Stoplights #6 and #3 on the main parkway at 6:00PM. This is a city-wide effort where dozens of floats, locals and business owners all march down the main street of the city with Miss Dolly herself following close behind. www.mypigeonforge.com/events/dolly-parade/

The second one starts the following Sunday, May 3rd, and goes on to Thursday, May 7th. Ripley's in Gatlinburg will be holding "Sevier County Days", where locals and visitors who live or work in Sevier County, Jefferson County, and Cocke County can get into any Ripley's attraction, including the Aquarium, Haunted Adventure, Guinness World of Records, any of them for only $5 a person. And money that goes to Ripleys goes on to the Sevier County Food Ministry as well. www.ripleysgatlinburg.com.

Check back with us in a little while for special events coming up next month as the Summer season starts. www.covemountain.com.

Spring in the Smokies 2015

Praise our maker, Spring has sprung here in the Smokies! The Dogwoods are exploding into popcorn trees, the colors are blooming all across the motor and hiking trails, the temperatures are as comfortable as we'll see all year, and it's a prime to consider coming out to the Smokies for a vacation.

Need an additional reason? Ok, how about that Dollywood is now open with Festival of the Nations? This is the 30th anniversary of the park becoming Dollywood and there will be new things being offered throughout the year (including the huge new DreamMore Dollywood Resort). Ireland is the focus again for Festival of the Nations and there are new performers taking stage throughout as well. "Timber!" and the "Alash Ensemble" will definitely be acts you want to check out. See more on this at www.dollywood.com.

Make your Spring getaway something to remember by making a reservation with Cove Mountain. www.covemountain.com

The Year Begins With The Smokies

It's that time of the year when it's not really a time of the year at all - the big holidays are over with, the mountains are bare, and things are quiet for the most part until mid-April... but don't go thinking that this some sort of despondent time for the Smokies. The low traffic and even lower temperatures afford those who choose to come out the opportunity to enjoy East Tennessee at it's most solemnly dignified. No color in the hills, but they project a haunting beauty all the same, and the atmosphere lends itself well to romantic getaways and vacations you couldn't take during the holidays because the holidays themselves were no holiday at all!

Such are just a few examples of why you should consider a trip to the Smoky Mountains here in January. If you'd like some more, consider the following:

1. Gas prices are currently hovering slightly above or slightly below the $2.00.

2. The 25th Wilderness Wildlife Week in Pigeon Forge will be starting up at the end of the month.

3. We have plenty of luxury Smoky Mountain cabins waiting for you here at Cove Mountain Resort! Anywhere from 1 bedroom to 7 right here in Wears Valley between Pigeon Forge and Townsend, TN (some cabins are even pet-friendly!)

See more on what a January trip to the Smokies with Cove Mountain could mean for you at www.covemountain.com.