(PIC HEAVY) Smoky Mountains/Cades Cove

[GaDawg]

I love Cades Cove! I live in GA and grew up camping in the cove. Went every year for 10 years or more, and went back this summer too. I can't tell you how many times I've rode the 11 mile loop on bikes.
We have ancestors who lived there in the Shields Cabin.
Beautiful place, love the cove!

 

[lilshadow]

That is so exciting, I have always wondered about the people that lived in those cabins. I would love to live in one of those cabins. Which cabin is the Shields cabin? I get so excited when I go there I always forget to look to see which cabin I am at.

 

[AllChookUp]

That looks like a great vacation back home for you, lilshadow. Thanks for sharing!

Fellow Minnesotan.

 

[GaDawg]

The Shields Cabin is the last cabin or next to last cabin in the loop. We are usually riding bikes and by the end we are ready to get back to the campground store to get one of those soft serve ice creme cones...lol

 

[Parson's Wife]

I have never been there, we stayed on the interstate going back and forth to Camp Lejuene, NC
However, my sister-in-law and family just got back from a trip to the Smokies....she had pictures of that church...they took a guided tour that took them to about 4 or 5 older churches in that area. They loved it...they also went to a town, sorry I can't remember the name, where they rode a skylift....

The pictures were stunning.
Thank you for sharing.

 

[lilshadow]

Gatlinburg probably. They have a sky lift there.

 

[Cara]

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The town was probably Gatlinburg. My mom insisted on us going on the chair lift... until we were halfway up LOL

 

[lilshadow]

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Okay I remember now, it is the last cabin on the loop I do believe just looked at a pic of it.

 

[pipermark]

Very pretty, win I hit the lottery , I will have to check into moving to Tennessee

 

[wegotchickens]

Pretty pictures!!
I'm spoiled! I get to see that stuff any time I want. The luxury of living 45 minutes from paradise, and that's including driving around the tourists!

DH is going hiking there tomorrow, but I have to attend a company picnic...

I met one of the Sheilds descendents, but I can't remember his first name. He was a botanist and did a lot of plant grafting. There's a church in South Knoxville that has red, pink & white blooms on a dogwood tree that he grafted. He grafted several other dogwoods as well. I got to go on a bus tour of the area with him as a college freshman. He's the one who told me, "If you don't like the weather around here, just give it a minute. It'll change."

Amazing thing: Some of Mom's ancestors were from Cades Cove but moved to Arizona during the Civil War. I felt like I'd finally come home the first time I saw those mountains, then learned that maybe I had!!