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GREAT SMOKY MOUNTAINS FOOTHILLS PARKWAY TOUR

Quick Details

  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Ages: All ages
  • Knowledgeable, Professional Guides
  • Perfect for History Buffs and Heritage Tours
  • Breathtaking Views of the Smokies
  • Photo Opportunities
  • Rough Terrain Ride
  • Groups Welcome
  • Scenic Wears Valley
  • Townsend (Quiet Side of the Smokies)
  • Limited Parking Onsite
Weekdays
Adults Ages 13+
$79
Child Ages 12 & Under
$59
Weekends
Adults Ages 13+
$99
Child Ages 12 & Under
$59

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Where Adventure Meets the Great Outdoors!

This Great Smoky Mountains tour incorporates the stunning views through scenic Wears Valley into Townsend (the quiet side of the Smokies) along the Foothills Parkway, featuring breathtaking views with multiple overlooks to take photos and enjoy the scenery.

It closes with the excitement of a rough terrain ride on private land in our beautiful, family-friendly, group-friendly 12 passenger jeeps.

Your visit starts when your knowledgeable tour guide makes a beeline for Wears Valley and Townsend. Enjoy several stops along the way to learn about the amazing history of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Shop for trinkets here as well. You’ll enjoy unobstructed views of the Smokies to the south and the Tennessee Valley to the north.

Stops throughout our Smoky Mountain Jeep tour make this visit a CAN’T-MISS photographer’s adventure. With our guide in control, you can zero in on the view ahead. Lower regions Parkway, promoted by numerous individuals as “the prettiest drive in America,” brings breathtaking scenes of the Smoky Mountains’ most elevated points!

Supported by Congress in 1944, the most recent part of Foothills Parkway in Tennessee was finished in late 2018. En route, your guide will share how the rough territory and other interesting components made this work of art require a long time to finish. With your senses brimming with the exceptional excellence of the Smokies, a roller coaster is standing by. Not only is your guide a specialist narrator, but a fun enthusiast as well!

A view from the Great Smoky Mountains Foothills Parkway with sun rising over the mountains of the Smokies in early spring with fog in the valley.
Sun rising over snowy mountains of Smokies in early spring with fog in valleys
Wears Valley, Tennessee, USA Foothills Parkway sign for the newly completed section of the Foothills Parkway. The completed section is 16 miles and runs between Wears Valley and Walland,Tennessee. The Foothills Parkway is part of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
Wears Valley, Tennessee, USA Foothills Parkway sign for the newly completed section of the Foothills Parkway. The completed section is 16 miles and runs between Wears Valley and Walland, Tennessee.
A breathtaking scenic drive along the Foothills Parkway. Winding mountain road along the Great Smoky Mountains Foothills Parkway in Wears Valley, Tennessee, USA.
A breathtaking scenic drive along the Foothills Parkway. Winding mountain road along the Great Smoky Mountains Foothills Parkway in Wears Valley, Tennessee, USA.
Enjoy a misty Smoky Mountain sunrise. Mist in the valley of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as seen from the recently opened portion of the Foothills Parkway in Wears Valley, Tennessee.
Mist in the valley of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park as seen from the recently opened portion of the Foothills Parkway in Wears Valley, Tennessee.
Summer at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Foothills Parkway in Wears Valley, Tennessee.
Summer at the Great Smoky Mountains National Park on the Foothills Parkway in Wears Valley, Tennessee.
View of Gatlinburg Tennessee at night, seen from the Foothills Parkway in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
View of Gatlinburg at night, seen from Foothills Parkway in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee.

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