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Gatlinburg & Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Where to Hike, Eat, & Drink

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  Gatlinburg & Great Smoky Mountains National Park: Where to Hike, Eat, & Drink This post is the companion guide to Episode 23 of Marrying Your Passions: The DINK Travel and Adventure Podcast, where we cover Gatlinburg, the Smokies and more! Some destinations you visit once and check off a list. Gatlinburg is not one of those places for us. We have been coming back to this corner of Tennessee for 19 years, starting with our honeymoon and continuing through more return trips than we can accurately count. We have watched this town survive wildfires and rebuild itself. Our pup, Peppermint Patty now also has her own tradition here. After all these years, we still find something new every single time. This is our complete guide to it. Nathan and Alicia stopped on the Roaring Fork Motor Nature Trail for a selfie in front of the Smokies   Where It Started Our first trip to Gatlinburg was our honeymoon back in 2007. We didn't know then that it would become the place we kept re...