Tag Archives: Pigeon Forge

Inside a crowded theater at Dollywood today, Dolly Parton unveiled the theme park’s latest project, a revolutionary new wood coaster named Lightning Rod scheduled to open in March 2016. Both the world’s fastest wood coaster and the world’s first launching wood coaster, Lighting Rod is a 1950s-era hot rod themed, 12-car train that takes 24 passengers on an adrenaline-charged lap ...

The popular western store Stages West is closed after suffering significant damage from an early morning fire on Thursday. The Pigeon Forge Fire Department responded to a fire call for the Stages West retail store located at 2765 Parkway shortly after 4 a.m. on Aug. 6, 2015 and had the fire extinguished before 6:30 a.m., preventing the fire from spreading ...

On Tuesday, August 4, the American Eagle Foundation of Tennessee released two 13-week-old bald eaglets in honor of the service members slain last month by a gunman at the Naval Operational Support Center and Marine Corps Reserve Center in Chattanooga, Tenn. For the past six weeks, these eaglets have resided in the American Eagle Foundation’s artificial nesting tower overlooking Douglas Lake ...

Running a flat course in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains in the dark of night pushed the Pigeon Forge Midnight 8K to national recognition in “The Runner’s Bucket List: 200 Races To Run Before You Die.” Author Denise Malan, an avid runner from Kansas City, Mo., highlights a wide variety of races – some serious, some quirky – ...

The Dollywood Company’s most anticipated project to date, Dollywood’s DreamMore ResortTM, opens its doors Monday, July 27, creating a new chapter in the famed company’s 30-year history. Fittingly, Dolly Parton’s dream of adding a resort to the fun and excitement of her Smoky Mountain theme park offerings comes true during Dollywood’s 30th anniversary season. “Seeing DreamMore Resort open really is ...

Businesses participating in the annual Pigeon Forge Celebrate Freedom event are honoring the sacrifices made by America’s heroes all month long in August by offering discounts for military personnel, veterans, police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders. Celebrate Freedom runs August 1-31, 2015. The Pigeon Forge Department of Tourism organized the month-long program. Both locals and visitors to the area ...

The biggest event in Southern gospel music, the National Quartet Convention (NQC), has committed to a third year in Pigeon Forge in 2016 and has options on dates through 2020, according to Clarke Beasley, NQC executive vice president, and the Pigeon Forge Department of Tourism. The weeklong event moved to the LeConte Center at Pigeon Forge in 2014 and recorded ...

One of the most treasured Titanic artifacts, the violin of Bandmaster Wallace Hartley, will be on display for a limited engagement at each of the Titanic Museum Attractions in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. and Branson, Mo. Titanic Museum Attractions has announced that it has secured worldwide rights to exhibit the Wallace Hartley Titanic Violin, which sold at auction for more than ...

State and local officials were on hand this week to celebrate the completion of a building that will soon house Sevier County’s new recycling hub. The facility was made possible through a $300,000 Recycling Hub and Spoke Grant from the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation, which are awarded for the development and expansion of regional facilities to collect, transport ...

Old Forge Distillery’s 1830 Original Miller’s Blend and Coffee Flavored Moonshine were recently awarded Platinum Medals at the 2015 SIP Awards. A 100-member judging panel at the 2015 SIP Awards, the world’s largest consumer tasting competition, awarded 1830 Original Miller’s Blend a Platinum medal in the “Unaged Whiskey/Moonshine” category and 1830 Original Coffee a Platinum medal in the “Flavored/Infused Whiskey” ...